An expert from the State Language Commission collects samples of the dialect in Luanping county, Hebei province. About 1 billion people in China speak Putonghua, the national, standardized form of ...

Knowing Putonghua is almost as important as knowing English when it comes to finding work and being promoted in Hong Kong, a study has found. As such, managers at most companies recently said they ...

There was a saying around 1997 that you do not have to learn Putonghua as long as you do not cross the Lo Wu Bridge and enter Chinese mainland territory. Nowadays, you may hear it in the crowded ...

George Tsang, in his letter (“Time to change Hong Kong’s language policy so city can succeed”, August 5), discusses language policy in education after the handover. One issue he looked at was the ...

A teacher is teaching Putonghua to students of the Miao ethnic group in a village in South China's Hainan Province in November 2017. Photo: VCG During China's Putonghua promotion week, which falls on ...

When Lau Chaak-ming was casting around for a kindergarten for his daughter, he had trouble finding one that used Cantonese. It was a strange, if not ridiculous, situation for a city made up primarily ...

Putonghua, which literally means, the common language of China, is becoming more common in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), as the HKSAR government launched its first Putonghua ...

Hong Kong’s mother tongue is under threat. Cantonese may be centuries old but how much longer can it sustain the pressure from China to pick up Putonghua? By Arthur Tam and Anna Cummins. Additional ...

BEIJING, Dec. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chinese language has made its formal entry onto the international language stage. No longer is it the preserve of fogey old professors keen to unravel the ...

Since the start of the year, a special pastoral team set up by Cardinal Chow has been active, dedicated to ministering to the thousands of Mandarin-speaking people who have arrived in the city in ...

In 1953, the government dispatched a group of linguists to locations nationwide to record speech patterns, and to identify dialects that were easy to understand and could be standardized as the ...