KUALA LUMPUR (The Straits Times): Former bank officer Sri Devi Mani, 41, grew up in Selangor speaking her mother tongue Tamil, and now uses the language to create lessons for her Mandarin tuition ...

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One’s first language, or mother tongue, is commonly defined as the language that one has been exposed to from birth. One’s second language is learned later, and can be a language used in one’s ...

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A PRIMARY school believes Mandarin is the language children need to learn to get on in life and is teaching it to pupils from the age of five. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire ...

Only approximately 7 percent of all school children in England are educated in independent schools, according to the ...

It’s Friday night in Ikebukuro, a Tokyo entertainment district full of cheap bars and pachinko parlors. As the office workers head to their favorite watering holes, three salarymen split from the ...

MAPUTO, March 20 (Xinhua) -- A groundbreaking partnership has been officially launched between the Confucius Institute at Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique's largest university, and two local ...

AUCKLAND: Mandarin was once the darling of foreign language learning in New Zealand. Students even used to camp overnight outside the University of Auckland's foreign language department to get a spot ...

With a map of China on the wall behind him, 14-year-old Yasser al-Shaalan studied the names of professions in a Chinese textbook, one of thousands of Saudi children now learning the language at school ...