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 ...

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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, ...

Mandarin Chinese is spoken by over a billion people across Asia and around the globe, making it a useful language for travelers to know. Learning pinyin, which romanizes Chinese characters, can ...

To a non-Chinese speaker (like me), and especially to a Westerner (like me), Chinese is the most impenetrable family of languages on Earth. While there may be only an eighth as many syllables as in ...

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 ...

Michel Hockx works for an institution (SOAS, University of London) which offers Chinese language teaching. In 2012, he was briefly director of a Confucius Institute. I found myself in wholehearted ...