But it is also true that having to learn thousands of ideographic characters instead of just the two dozen or so letters of the Western alphabet has forced Chinese education into a deep, narrow ...

If you have decided to start learning Mandarin Chinese, you need to understand the Mandarin tones. To speak correctly you need to learn the four main Mandarin tones. First – Level Tone ...

Chinese certainly presents unique difficulties. To be literate in the language, a person must be able to read and write at least three thousand characters.

Chinese skincare brands sell their products based upon the verb 美白 (měibái), to whiten. (Literally, the phrase is a combination of the words “beautiful” and “white.”) ...

Chinese is the only modern language that’s logographic, meaning that the way a character is written can be completely separate from its pronunciation (Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese have their ...

Debuted in 1959 by MIT professor Samuel Hawks Caldwell and the Graphic Arts Research Foundation, this machine featured a QWERTY keyboard, which the operator used to input—not the phonetic values ...