Chinese, the most commonly spoken language in the world, is challenging to master. Rather than an alphabet, Chinese has thousands of characters. On top of that, the language is tonal, so how you speak ...

Last month ShaoLan Hsueh found herself at a press conference in Taiwan to promote Chineasy, a highly visual method for learning the Chinese language she had developed over the past few years. It made ...

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 ...

An independent school has become the first in the UK to make Mandarin Chinese compulsory for pupils, reflecting the growing importance of China on the world stage. But it's not an easy language to ...

The debate over the superiority of either traditional or simplified Chinese characters has been ongoing since the latter were first introduced. There are ideological, esthetic, historical, and ...

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 ...

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The recent decision of the Chinese department to focus more on traditional characters has caused many negative reactions among students only exposed to simplified characters. However, most of these ...

Analysis: there is an increasing interest in learning Chinese but it's a language which requires a lot of time to master Learning Chinese (Mandarin) as a foreign language has become increasingly ...