Chinese language teaching is increasingly about memorising and repeating sounds and signs, without the meditative beauty that underlies the language. Pronunciation is not a relevant variable in a ...

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 ...

The woman who made learning Chinese easier by redesigning pictograms into visual cues shares her creativity secrets. Chinese is notorious for being one of the more difficult languages to learn, ...