I spent several years, and some of your tax dollars, trying to learn Chinese, so I need to say something about a new campaign to get that language into U.S. schools and colleges. The Asia Society ...

Learning Mandarin Chinese can be a task and you might wonder where to start and how to go in the right direction to learn the language easily and more efficiently.

Here are the easiest and hardest languages to learn. ... While there are over 100,000 characters in Chinese, according to the Chinese Learning Institute, ...