Reporting from BeijingReporting from Beijing — Mandarin Chinese is a notoriously difficult language to learn — a labyrinth of semantic tones, elaborate characters and obscure idiomatic phrases. And in ...

At an event in China, Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid has demonstrated a real-time English-to-Mandarin speech-to-speech translation engine. Not only is the translation very accurate, but the ...

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Now that China is the world’s second largest economy, it’s no surprise that a booming language immersion program has seen a 300 percent growth in demand for Mandarin Chinese. Yesterday I spoke with ...

The success of the Netflix series House of Cards lies in the details. The show has consulted with computer hackers and political scientists on storylines. Its characters regularly name-drop real-life ...