In Standard Mandarin, a mid vowel agrees in [back] and [round] features with adjacent glides. A mid vowel preceded by a front rounded glide [ɥ], however, is only partially assimilated, resulting in a ...

The language spoken by more people on the planet than any other will become the latest classroom offering for Napa County’s teenagers. An elective course in the Mandarin dialect of Chinese will open ...

Reporting from Beijing — In Guangzhou, the city formerly known as Canton, Chinese government banners hang in primary schools with instructions to use the country’s official language, Mandarin, also ...

We've had lots of fun sharing photos of Chengdu with you through this blog, but today, something for the ears. As any student of Mandarin Chinese will know, China can be a maddening place. You can ...

When she first arrived in San Francisco and walked through Chinatown's streets speaking Mandarin, people muttered under their breath. They called Rose Pak a Chinese person who didn't speak Chinese. A ...

What does it mean to learn the Chinese language? Schools across the globe have generally presumed a consistent, straightforward answer to this question: it would mean learning standard Mandarin, ...

Toronto author and historian Arlene Chan has been expecting it to happen for years. And with this week's census release, it finally did: Mandarin has edged out Cantonese as the second-most common ...