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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 ...

Xiaohongshu is fast becoming the site of a US-China cultural exchange ahead of a possible ban of TikTok in the US.Cheng Xin/Getty Images The threat of TikTok going dark in the US appears to have ...

I was scrolling Twitter today when I came across a surprising revelation from Duolingo, the language-learning app known for its persistent notifications that guilt-trip you into studying. The app is ...

A TikTok ban could very well happen this weekend. As such, people are flocking to a similar Chinese app — RedNote — to fill that TikTok void. And there’s an interesting trend one company has noted ...

Duolingo reportedly saw a 216% increase in U.S. users learning Mandarin since the announcement of TikTok’s potential ban. Many TikTok users are migrating to RedNote, a Chinese social app, to maintain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kelly Chuang, standing, teaches Mandarin to Crystal Huang at Chinese School of San Marino on April 1. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles ...

In a few days, TikTok could be banned in the US, which will make the app unusable and unavailable from app stores. Instead of making do with Instagram Reels, people looked for a closer alternative and ...

The timing couldn’t be clearer, as a wave of so-called TikTok refugees scrambled to join the Chinese social app RedNote ahead of TikTok’s looming U.S. ban. The ban, set to take effect on January 19 ...

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In the relaxed cadences of her native Taiwan, Kelly Chuang instructed her students to repeat after her. “Wo bu shi taiwan ren. Wo shi meiguo ren” — “I’m not Taiwanese. I’m American.” She projected the ...