The Chinese languages referred to here are the famous Chinese "dialects": Cantonese, Shanghai, Fukienese, etc. Because speakers of one of these "dialects" cannot understand speakers of another of them ...

In the world of science, English is the standard language. But could this be limiting talented Chinese academics? When a group of Chinese primary school pupils with a keen interest in astronomy ...

Beyond these two “languages” of China, there are also the languages of China’s 55 or so minority groups, most of whose native languages are completely unrelated to Chinese. We can find China’s major ...

A step towards a more user-friendly standard came in 2018, when China’s government published the National List of Common Words for Universal Sign Language, including more than 5,000 standard signs, ...

China's Standards of English Language Ability, or CSE, the country's first standards for English proficiency, have been linked to the Test of English as a Foreign Language, ...

Throughout history, women in rural Hunan Province used a coded script to express their most intimate thoughts to one another. Today, this once-“dead” language is making a comeback. China’s ...

However, China's Education Ministry said in 2013 there were about 400 million people in the country of around 1.3 billion who could not speak the national language.