While romance languages like French and Spanish used to be the norm, Mandarin is exploding in popularity among students and families. As she counts the numbers in Mandarin, 8-year-old Anna McCuistion ...

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.

As TikTok ban looms in the US, users are turning to another Chinese app – Xiaohongshu also known as RedNote. However, since Shanghai-based RedNote is tailored for a Chinese audience, its default ...

As the US TikTok ban looms, users migrate to RedNote, a Chinese app gaining traction among American Gen Z users. With RedNote defaulting to Mandarin, Duolingo reports a 216% rise in US users learning ...