Learning a new language requires dedication and time. If you speak English, learning Mandarin, commonly known as Chinese, will be a lot more difficult but with great motivation and commitment you ...

Over 1,000 words of Chinese origin can now be found in the Oxford English Dictionary and, since the mid-1990s, the adoption of Chinese words and phrases into English seems to have been on the rise.

Popular English words that have no direct translation in Chinese are fuelling fierce debate in the mainland, reports the BBC's Yuwen Wu.

Most Chinese words now part of English show, in their spelling and meaning, to have been borrowed a long time ago, often from non-Mandarin Chinese varieties like Cantonese.

Some Chinese students consistently out-perform Americans on standardized math tests. What gives them the edge? Maybe it's their rapid-fire number-words and simple counting system.