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 ...
Americans are flocking to Chinese app Xiaohongshu, or RedNote, as a potential US TikTok ban looms. Some of them are learning Mandarin in an attempt to bridge the language divide on the app.
Language learning app Duolingo has seen an over 200% spike in U.S. users learning Mandarin "out of spite" as many flee to Chinese app RedNote amid the uncertainty surrounding TikTok's future.
As they hop from TikTok to RedNote, some of the so-called TikTok refugees are learning Mandarin to bridge the language divide on the Chinese app. Language learning apps Duolingo and Drops said ...