STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: When you travel in China - as our team has been doing - you meet a fair number of people who know English. Millions of Chinese citizens have been educated in the United States.

Americans are flocking to Chinese app Xiaohongshu, or RedNote, as a potential US TikTok ban looms. Some of them are learning Mandarin in an attempt to bridge the language divide on the app.

As the US TikTok ban looms, users migrate to RedNote, a Chinese app gaining traction among American Gen Z users. With RedNote defaulting to Mandarin, Duolingo reports a 216% rise in US users learning ...

Language learning app Duolingo has seen an over 200% spike in U.S. users learning Mandarin "out of spite" as many flee to Chinese app RedNote amid the uncertainty surrounding TikTok's future. On ...

TikTok will soon be banned from the world's largest social media market, leaving millions of its users without their favourite app for "doomscrolling" and procrastination. Surprisingly, many of its ...

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Available figures suggest enthusiasm is waning after years of rapid growth, with analysts pointing to China's economy and image problems When Colby Porter began Mandarin classes in sixth grade in ...

All are home to publicly funded Mandarin immersion programmes, where kids as young as three years old spend half of each school day taking their regular classes – like math, science or physical ...