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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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