On government's order, leading newspapers in China have started painstaking task of tutoring English to the Chinese- sentence by sentence. BEIJING: Beijing Evening News prints one English sentence ...

During the winter vacation, we asked our students to study English on their own, and so they ran across the street to China’s top English teaching company to take vocabulary classes. After school ...

Every morning at 5 a.m., Autmn Fletcher walks into her home office in Monmouth, Illinois, and switches on her laptop, just in time to teach English to Chinese children arriving home after school in ...

Leopold Leeb, 48, is a professor at Renmin University of China. He has spent more than a decade teaching Latin, Greek and classical Hebrew in Beijing. He tells China Daily he believes that classical ...

A fierce debate about English education has been raging across China, after a former spokesman for the Ministry of Education called for the teaching of the foreign language in primary schools to be ...

Chinese is a difficult, but rewarding language to learn. In fact, it’s the most popular language in the world. However, most vacations and business trips don’t need that level of learning. Most use ...

Speaking Chinese may not have been a requirement a decade ago when any foreigner who did not look Chinese could secure a job as an English teacher. Nowadays, if expatriates look for jobs in the ...

Hina Butt was pilloried and ostracized for her faltering Cantonese in childhood. But the determined girl of Pakistani descent shocked her peers by mastering the local dialect and finding a vocation in ...

Speak excellent Chinese with accurate pronunciation and tones, OK if in slightly lower than natural speed. Understand basic grammar rules. Be able to engage in communications on topics taught in the ...

When 20-year-old Suon Chiva was choosing a language to complement his native Khmer, it didn’t take him long to decide. He saw where the products in his local markets were made and where the new ...