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, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Duolingo today added support for Chinese and that’s a big deal for a few reasons. The language ...

Reporting from Aguascalientes, Mexico — Wo jiao Alberto. Wo jiao Maribel. Ni ji sui? Alberto and Maribel, sixth-graders at the Pedro Garcia Rojas elementary school here in central Mexico, introduce ...

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