Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today ...

Year One: Beginning Chinese Year One | Year Two | Year Three | Year Four Goals Speak excellent Chinese with accurate pronunciation and tones, OK if in slightly lower than natural speed. Understand ...

Academic and literary Chinese are dense forms of the language, fraught with rare characters and esoteric references that would be almost impenetrable if rendered into pinyin.

About Chinese Language Courses CHIN 1010 (5) Beginning Chinese 1 An introduction to the fundamentals of modern standard Chinese (Mandarin), including pronunciation, Chinese characters, grammar, and ...

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 ...

While ‘International Chinese Language Day’ takes place on April 20, a number of dignitaries and cultural lovers attended the unveiling of the ‘101 Wishes: The Beauty of Chinese Characters ...

In honor of UN Chinese Language Day on April 20, Global Voices is exploring the multitude of Chinese languages and dialects and the political implications of their use.

The number of Americans studying Chinese is soaring, thanks in part to deeper economic ties with China. Kids from one Chinese-language immersion school met the U.S. and Chinese presidents on ...

How do courts protect Chinese character marks? Although each case of ‘infringement by translation’ is judged on its own merits, determining similarity in a trademark infringement dispute between a ...

The languages of China are all called varieties of “Chinese” because they are unified by a single written script, a common culture, and a shared political identity, while politically fragmented Europe ...