Mandarin is spoken across the globe, and its real power lies in the doors it opens. Learning it connects you to culture, ...

The goal of my new book Chineasy is to allow people to learn to read Chinese easily by recognizing characters through simple illustrations and animations. By learning one small set of building blocks, ...

Chineasy uses pared-down graphics to ease the process of learning one of the world’s toughest languages. There are some 20,000 characters in contemporary written Chinese. Knowing about 4,000 is ...

Speak excellent Chinese with accurate pronunciation and tones, OK if in slightly lower than natural speed. Understand basic grammar rules. Be able to engage in communications on topics taught in the ...

HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, students around the world are increasingly interested in learning Chinese. Some are drawn by the pull of a foreign culture or the challenges of a new language; ...

“Yi, er, san . . .” A Chinese language student counts each stroke while writing the Chinese character for “big”, 大. This seems like a simple process, but new evidence suggests that studying Chinese ...