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How Being is making it easier for foreigners to learn its language
Move over, English. There's a new language bidding for global status. With 1 billion chatterers, Mandarin already outstrips English as the most-spoken language in the world. However, nearly all the speakers are, well, Chinese. But now, Beijing is aiming to change that by promoting the study of Chinese around the world...
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