Ten years ago Mandarin, the mother tongue of most Chinese, was being hyped as the language of the future. In 2015 the administration of Barack Obama called for 1m primary- and secondary-school ...

A lack of Mandarin teachers has held the UK back, said the British Council The number of students learning Mandarin in England could double by 2019, says Education Minister Elizabeth Truss. Ms Truss ...

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More and more Chinese nowadays are able to communicate with Chinese Mandarin, says a survey that indicates that 53 per cent of the population can communicate with the language known as putonghua.