Tag: Chinese
400 Million Chinese Still Can’t Speak Mandarin
About 30% of the Chinese population, or 400 million people, cannot speak Mandarin, according to figures recently released by China's Ministry of Education, despite...
129 New Chinese Guest Teachers for U.S. Schools
Over a hundred new teachers from China are ready to serve in the Chinese Guest Teacher Program, a collaboration between the College Board and...
First Chinese Scripts?
Archeologists in China are debating the significance of recently discovered inscriptions dating back 3,000 years. The Global Times, China’s state-run newspaper, reported that the inscriptions, unearthed...
$100,000 Grant to Help Improve Chinese Language Instruction in America
Last year, Claudia Ross, immediate past president of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA), began designing a program to help expand the resources available...
Chinese in Taiwan or China?
While the obivous place to go to learn Chinese is, well, China, it's sometimes easy to forget that for quite a while after the...