Tag: China
Data Shows US-China Cultural Relations at Low Point
According to official figures, cultural ties between the United States and China are at a significant low after years of steady decline.
Data measuring study abroad,...
UK Amps Funding for Chinese Capabilities
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced an increase in funding to amplify skills and knowledge on China, for government staff. This includes training...
UN Celebrates Chic Chinese
On April 20, the United Nations (UN) Chinese Language Day and the second CMG Overseas Chinese Language Video Festival were celebrated with the theme...
Cuba Introduces Secondary Chinese
Over 100 seventh graders from Fructuoso Rodríguez school in the central Havana district of Plaza de la Revolución will start Chinese classes during the...
China Plans Mandarin Domestic Dominance by 2025
According to a directive recently released by China’s Ministry of Education, Mandarin Chinese will be spoken by 85% of the country’s population by 2025....
Mandarin Imposed on Minority Preschools
The Chinese Ministry of Education is making Mandarin the medium of instruction for preschoolers in areas where minority languages like Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uyghur,...
Inner Mongolians Protest Chinese Language Classes
A new directive in the Inner Mongolia region is causing parents to protest. The directive will require three subjects — language and literature, politics,...
Call to Protect Portuguese in Macau
Macau was a Portuguese territory until 1999 and is Portugal’s only ex-colony which is not a member of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries...
500 Million Portuguese Speakers by 2100
According to José Luís Carneiro, Portugal’s secretary of state for Portuguese communities abroad, “By 2060, the Portuguese language is predicted to be spoken by...
Over 400 Languages May Have Originated in China
A new study by Menghan Zhang at Fudan University in Shanghai and his colleagues recently published in Nature explored the origin of Sino-Tibetan languages...
Bringing Chinese to Preschoolers
Lauren Cortinas presents a
solution for the youngest learners of Mandarin
In October 2014, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a speech at Tsinghua University in Beijing entirely...
Russian, Ruslan Ustinov, Crosses Chinese Bridge First
Russian student Ruslan Ustinov won the 17th Chinese Bridge Chinese Language Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students last month in Changsha, in central China’s...
