As "TikTok refugees" flood to Chinese site RedNote, language learning app Duolingo has reported an over 200% spike in people learning Mandarin.

With RedNote defaulting to Mandarin, people have to choose either to adapt or get lost in translation. And Americans are choosing to adapt—by crashing Duolingo servers. Twitter, or X ...

Recent media pieces have drawn attention to the growing popularity of Mandarin and the use of language in promoting socio-economic ties between China and other countries, especially in the Global ...

Never discount the resolve of the American spirit in the face of adversity — in this case, the determination to learn a little bit of Mandarin Chinese to make navigating the popular TikTok ...

A TikTok ban could very well happen this weekend. As such, people are flocking to a similar Chinese app — RedNote — to fill that TikTok void. And there’s an interesting trend one company has ...

The Mandarin programme’s importance really lies in helping the younger generation of Americans understand and appreciate Chinese people and culture,” said Ms Chen. These grassroots ...

Surprisingly, many of its users have decided to download a Chinese social media app in response, with language-learning app Duolingo reporting a 216 per cent increase in people learning Mandarin ...

"oh so NOW you're learning mandarin," Duolingo joked in a tweet ... and said it's seen "a corresponding spike in people selecting 'TikTok' as their answer." Duoling was the 18th most downloaded ...