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, ...

Mike Hainzinger was living in Taiwan in the early 2000s and faced a choice: try to get by with a minuscule bit of Mandarin Chinese that he knew, “pointing at things and smiling,” or make an effort to ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Chineasy is a strategic, easy-learning project by entrepreneur ShaoLan Hsueh that teaches people to recognize Chinese characters through simple illustration. Watch ...

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 ...

All of which should beg the question for anyone thinking about their career: Should you start learning Chinese? It sure wouldn’t hurt. In a lousy domestic job market, going East — and to China in ...

Android/iOS: Learning to read, write, and speak languages with their own character sets can be challenging to those of us used to roman lettering, but Word Fireworks turns it into a game that’s not ...

Tessa Hulls’s “Feeding Ghosts” chronicles how China’s history shaped her family. But first, she had to tackle some basics. “My grandmother’s memoir was this locked box,” Tessa Hulls said.