Spanish remains the language most frequently spoken by English-learners in U.S. schools by a wide margin, with roughly 76 percent of the nation’s 5 million English-learners speaking Spanish, but the ...

Living in Palo Alto as an older immigrant with limited English can be lonely and confusing. “The language-speaking is the hardest part of life here,” said Hua Ai Ling, through a translator. Following ...

Beijing -- China on Tuesday questioned the appropriateness of an email sent by a Duke University medical school administrator warning Chinese students to speak in English. Asked about the controversy, ...

Reporting from Beijing — There Mark Zuckerberg goes again, showing off his Chinese-speaking skills. The Facebook CEO — whose product is still blocked by Chinese censors — has been studying the ...

As Mandarin becomes increasingly favored both in China and the Bay Area, Cantonese defenders are grappling with threats to the language.