STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: When you travel in China - as our team has been doing - you meet a fair number of people who know English. Millions of Chinese citizens have been educated in the United States.

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The data would seem to be in: China is poised to become the world's economic leader within the next few decades. But there are those under the impression that this will mean a sea change in the ...

In her second semester of Mandarin Chinese classes, Lupita Barrientos is learning the words for living room, kitchen and sofa, carefully repeating after her teacher, Ting Yang. But Barrientos and Yang ...

Chinese language immersion kindergarteners Matthew Sullivan, left, and Robert Sawyer, right, each turned to look for approval from their two teachers after they pointed to the same Mandarin Chinese ...

Reporting from BeijingReporting from Beijing — Mandarin Chinese is a notoriously difficult language to learn — a labyrinth of semantic tones, elaborate characters and obscure idiomatic phrases. And in ...