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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the growing influence of China in the global landscape, being able to speak Chinese is considered an advantage. Learning Chinese is not only becoming trendy, it also opens up more opportunities ...

Yangguang Chen received funding from the British Academy between 2014 and 2016. British Council and British Academy reports all critique modern foreign language (MFL) teaching in the UK. They also ...