NEW YORK — Cantonese, a Chinese dialect that has dominated the Chinatowns of North America for decades, is being rapidly swept aside by Mandarin, the national language of China and the lingua franca ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Officials at the City College of San Francisco announced the school would offer new Cantonese-language certificates, preserving one of the nation's few programs teaching the language.

[Sound of notes.] Can you name those notes? Probably not—perhaps one in 10,000 speakers of European languages has perfect pitch, the ability to recognize a note without having heard any reference note ...