I am Chinese American, but I was raised speaking a language that is unintelligible even to most Mandarin speakers: Shanghainese. As a kid, I learned the nuances of the dialect, from native ...

This post was updated May 1 at 10:52 p.m. While most students share gossip in their native languages and with their dearest friends, Leo Kitaen has a different approach. Instead, Kitaen, a first-year ...

Ethnic Mongolians staged protests in northern China this week over Beijing’s new policy to gradually replace their native language with Mandarin in several school subjects. The policy will affect ...

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