Official languages of the United Nations

CGTN's Liling Tan spent the past year exploring the official languages of the United Nations. For each part of this digital series, she talked to language experts and practiced speaking each language: French, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, and (soon to come) Arabic, and American Sign Language. Watch as she delivers news reports in the languages of the U.N.

CGTN's Liling Tan wins award for UN languages series

The United Nations Correspondents Association has awarded CGTN Correspondent Liling Tan with the joint Bronze medal in the Ricardo Ortega Memorial Prize for broadcast media for best media coverage of the United Nations.

Reporter's Notebook: How the UN series on languages was produced

Part CGTN's Liling Tan's job as a journalist is to turn the language of diplomacy at the United Nations into normal-people words. In that effort she decided to report in the official languages of the UN. She reflects on what she learned in this Reporter's Notebook.

Speaking the official languages of the UN: French Language Day

To mark the occasion of French Language Day, we’re kicking off a CGTN web series to examine how the U.N. conducts business in its six official languages to honor multilingualism and cultural diversity.

Liling Tan learns Spanish to cover women breaking barriers in diplomacy

¡Saludos! For part three of our web series on U.N. languages, Liling Tan tries her hand at a news story in Español!

United Nations celebrates Chinese Language Day

At the United Nations, interest in Mandarin has steadily grown over the years, as has demand for UN news in Chinese. The world body marks Chinese Language Day every April 20th.