Suxia Chen is a language star with a twist – one of the “foreign” languages she’s learned to excel in is English. Chen is proficient in three Chinese dialects, Cantonese, Fuzhouese and Mandarin, and ...
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It's the language of S.F.'s first Chinese immigrants. Can it survive another generation?
Kim Torres was nervous as she stepped in front of two dozen classmates to perform the Cantonese dialogue she'd memorized. Although the language is her late mother's native language, the 23-year-old ...
NEW YORK — Cantonese, a Chinese dialect that has dominated the Chinatowns of North America for decades, is being rapidly swept aside by Mandarin, the national language of China and the lingua franca ...
On 15 June, local musician Gentle Bones responded in English to a Mandarin host at the Singapore Cultural Centre’s Cultural Extravaganza, leading to the publication of a Rice Media thought piece on ...
Thousands of years of Chinese linguistic heritage have come down to this: a squabble over Tom and Jerry. Dubbed into regional Chinese dialects, the warring cat and mouse have been huge TV hits _ and a ...
In unraveling his family history, writer William Poy Lee had no idea he’d wind up making a declaration of respectability for Toisanese across the America. Yet there he was on stage, in the hoity-toity ...
BEIJING — China is launching an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin, saying that 85% of its citizens will use the national language by 2025. The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional ...
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