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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

But it is also true that having to learn thousands of ideographic characters instead of just the two dozen or so letters of the Western alphabet has forced Chinese education into a deep ...

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 ...

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.

University-educated Chinese will normally know 6 - 8,000. In our interactive character game you can learn how to write 60 commonly-used characters. The earliest recognisable characters date back ...

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 ...