The constant exposure, along with the pressure to communicate, helps you swiftly pick up and practice new vocabulary ... role-playing games to help their students learn Chinese.

We did not know how to say words like “depression,” “anxiety” or “fat-shaming” in Mandarin. The only Chinese vocabulary we knew was from what we heard in the house and saw on TV.

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The numbers of Americans learning Mandarin Chinese ... the time U.S. interest in Chinese was peaking. Beijing was hosting its first-ever Olympics - the Summer Games - to great fanfare.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken his charm offensive on China to the next level, showing off his improved Mandarin pronunciation and vocabulary with a 20-minute speech to a ...