Recent research explores how women with non-native English accents — specifically Mandarin — fare in the Canadian job market.
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Failing to understand the language will prevent Indonesia from reaping the full benefits of its economic relationship with China.
Learning a language has many benefits. It improves your thinking abilities and enhances your understanding of the world. Knowing another language can give you a leg up in university applications too.
In Inner Mongolia, China’s new bilingual education policy comes at the expense of Mongolian language and culture.
A Vancouver study found Mandarin-speaking girls were more likely to be eligible for university than Cantonese-speaking boys. High-achieving students were from wealthier families who had tutors.
Even if only 130 Australians of non-Chinese heritage can speak Mandarin fluently, there are many more if you count those of Chinese heritage. And a level of fluency is not the only measure of success.
Raising the status of the African languages to that of official languages in South Africa post-1994 led to an explosion of translation and interpreting work in local and foreign languages.
Newly translated Chinese Ministry of Education records shine light on China’s shifting place in the global higher education landscape.
There is a new potential coloniser on South Africa’s linguistic block. From 2016, Mandarin will be taught in schools – and this will see African languages bumped even further down the pecking order.
Language is traditionally associated with the left side of the brain. But Mandarin speakers are using the right side.
The shortage of foreign language skills in the UK is now a permanent preoccupation, with some sources placing the estimated cost of the deficit as high as £48 billion a year. Britons are now seen as a…
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Subject Head, African Languages, Rhodes University
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