By learning one small set of building blocks, students can build many new words, characters, phrases, and even sentences. In the past year, I broke down thousands of common Chinese characters and ...

It has over 90 characters and counting. All 90+ of those characters have voice lines recorded in different languages, including Mandarin Chinese.

Entrepreneur and author ShaoLan Hsueh thinks that English-speakers can start learning to read Chinese in less than 10 minutes. The language, she says, has more than 20,000 written characters ...

There are some 20,000 characters in contemporary written Chinese. Knowing about 4,000 is considered educated, while the threshold for standard literacy is 2,000.

Her campaign on online funding platform, Kickstarter, to sponsor learning Chinese "the easiest way" has just ended with 5,475 supporters pledging GBP £197,630 (HK$2.4 million).

The first point I would like to emphasize is that traditional characters are not obsolete. The current Chinese curriculum encourages the idea that simplified characters are the script for modern ...

Recently the use of Chinese characters and the policies related to them have been a concern of many. The debate on traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters is an ongoing ...

Because learning Chinese characters use other parts of your brain and develop other academic skills that other languages simply don't touch on. So I think it is a difficult language, that's obvious.

Analysis: learning Chinese means studying the sound, shape and meaning of each character Brainstorm readers may remember that Caitríona Osborne recently pointed out the unique features of the ...