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 ...

Pinyin allows the learners to focus on their pronunciations along with reading and writing without the need of learning complex Chinese characters. You need to study carefully how to use Pinyin ...

But studies have shown that the academic and cognitive benefits of learning Chinese characters could be reasons in themselves to start practicing. A paper from Indiana University in the U.S ...

Rather than an alphabet, Chinese has thousands of characters. On top of that, the language is tonal, so how you speak a word can completely change its meaning. So, why learn Chinese? For one ...

“Yi, er, san . . .” A Chinese language student counts each stroke while writing the Chinese character for “big”, 大. This seems like a simple process, but new evidence suggests that studying Chinese ...

There’s been a rising dissatisfaction with current language teaching methods in China, but scientists think they may have an answer. There’s no way round it: learning Chinese is tough.

Pinyin, a system of transliterating Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet, is used by Westerners to learn basic Mandarin. Things get tougher when students start learning characters, but language ...

For example, the Chinese character for dog ... users need to memorize which keys correspond to which strokes, so the learning curve is quite steep. (One way people have remembered the keyboard ...

Unversed in Chinese characters, they used fortune tellers ... It felt like a way to abandon the rote learning that defined my early years in Singapore’s high-pressure formal education system ...