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STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: When you travel in China - as our team has been doing - you meet a fair number of people who know English. Millions of Chinese citizens have been educated in the United States.

There are a dozen terms native Chinese speakers use to describe what English speakers refer to as the “Chinese language.” Each of those terms has its own cultural and sometimes political affiliation.

On a recent morning in Overland Park, Kan., at a school next to a horse pasture in the middle of the country, a kindergartener raised his hand and asked to go to the bathroom — in Mandarin Chinese.

More than 1 billion people in the world speak Mandarin Chinese, and NPR's Emily Kwong wants to join that group. EMILY KWONG, BYLINE: OK, how do you say this? UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Speaking Mandarin ...

How do you say “ancillary revenue streams” in Mandarin? Nickelodeon execs hope to learn after launching “Ni Hao, Kai-lan,” the network’s bid to replicate the billion-dollar, bilingual success of “Dora ...