Mandarin Chinese is the most common language in the world, estimated to be spoken by more than 1.2 billion people in countries like China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia. With so many ...

Some say if you don't use pen to write but use computer to typewrite, you will not be able to memorize Chinese characters. Is that true? Some experiments show just the contrary. Computerized learning ...

Learning Mandarin tones and pronunciations used to be challenging for her, but persistent practice has improved her skills. "Learning Chinese characters was difficult at first. I had to memorize ...

Mandarin characters have developed over approximately 4,000 years. But Mandarin characters aren't letters that tell you how a word sounds - they're more like pictures or symbols. You see ...

It shows how Mandarin is taught in schools with the correct tones and using pinyin, a romanised form of spelling. There's a brief introduction to how Chinese characters are formed and how ...

Your level is A1 CEFR level or GCSE grade 3-5 (old grade: D or C). You can read/ recognise about 150 Chinese characters, and handwrite about 50 characters. You can understand and use familiar everyday ...

Learning simple Mandarin Chinese phrases and words is ... However, unlike English, Chinese characters do not indicate how they’re pronounced. And to complicate matters even further, there ...

JAKARTA — Around 20 years ago, Lu Fang landed in Indonesia from China to begin her career as a Mandarin teacher. Now, she is thrilled as more Indonesians love to learn the Chinese language and its ...

Over 20 years as a Chinese teacher, she has reinvented a different and a more effective way of teaching and learning Mandarin as a ... something using 320 Chinese characters.

It has been a common misconception for many years that the Chinese language (Mandarin) is the most difficult language to learn. Although I admit that it is by no means easy to learn, I believe that ...