Monki Chinese Class helps kids learn how to trace basic Cantonese characters through 20 colorful illustrations and animations, as well as how to pronounce them with integrated audio tracks. With its ...

According to the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Service Institute, Chinese is a Class III language—the most difficult to master—and requires 2,200 hours of rigorous study to gain general ...

To a non-Chinese speaker (like me), and especially to a Westerner (like me), Chinese is the most impenetrable family of languages on Earth. While there may be only an eighth as many syllables as in ...

Chinese characters have been used for about 3300 years, and the earliest Chinese characters were oracle bone inscription. Before New China was founded in 1949 people used traditional characters, but ...

The woman who made learning Chinese easier by redesigning pictograms into visual cues shares her creativity secrets. Chinese is notorious for being one of the more difficult languages to learn, ...

Mandarin Chinese is the most common language in the world, estimated to be spoken by more than 1.2 billion people in countries like China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia. With so many ...

Recently the use of Chinese characters and the policies related to them have been a concern of many. The debate on traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters is an ongoing issue ...

From Wubi to Zhineng ABC, here are the different ways Chinese people have typed their language over the years. This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about ...

The woman who made learning Chinese easier by redesigning pictograms into visual cues shares her creativity secrets. Chinese is notorious for being one of the more difficult languages to learn, ...