On a recent morning in Overland Park, Kan., at a school next to a horse pasture in the middle of the country, a kindergartener raised his hand and asked to go to the bathroom — in Mandarin Chinese.

English classes are mandatory for a majority of Chinese students, but less than 0.5 percent of English students learn Mandarin Chinese. Marian High School says they wanted to offer the language to set ...

This file photo shows teachers and students of Rusinga School perform dragon dance during the unveiling ceremony of the Confucius Classroom at Rusinga School, which is the first of the kind founded by ...

A Chinese teacher is giving a Mandarin lesson to pupils at Kensington Wade in West London. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] In a bright new classroom on the second floor of a West London building ...

Inside a brightly-lit classroom, around 20 schoolchildren are enthusiastically singing the Chinese national anthem. That song is followed by another tune in Chinese – one typically sung during the ...

NAIROBI, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's privately owned United States International University (USIU-Africa) on Thursday launched Confucius's classroom to strengthen the teaching of the Chinese language ...

Editors Note: At the National Chinese Language Conference in San Diego, CA, five Chinese language instructors boldly presented their findings and recommendations on teaching around race, sex, and ...

Elyse Ribbons was tired. She was staring down Chinese characters and idioms that had resisted memorization since before dawn. As the evening went on, she swallowed more and more coffee. The more ...