HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, students around the world are increasingly interested in learning Chinese. Some are drawn by the pull of a foreign culture or the challenges of a new language; ...

Chinese isn’t the easiest language in the world to learn. Unlike our 26-letter Western alphabet, there are estimated to be more than 50,000 characters, depending on how one counts variants. However, ...

Chineasy uses pared-down graphics to ease the process of learning one of the world’s toughest languages. There are some 20,000 characters in contemporary written Chinese. Knowing about 4,000 is ...

I was fascinated by a recent article (June 10) by Professor Jocelyn Chey, from the School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney, and previously a senior Australian diplomat and ...

Now you can perform one horribly mind-numbing and time-consuming activity – learning Chinese characters – by doing another one: playing a MMOG. The task of learning and memorizing Chinese characters, ...

Speak excellent Chinese with accurate pronunciation and tones, OK if in slightly lower than natural speed. Understand basic grammar rules. Be able to engage in communications on topics taught in the ...

Growing up in Taiwan, ShaoLan Hsueh stuck out. She liked writing in Chinese. "I know all the children hated it, but I was a bit odd in that I loved writing Chinese characters," says Hsueh, the ...