Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today ...

The Chinese language is one of the most complex and comprehensive languages in the world. Sometimes I feel lucky to be Chinese, specifically when I see some of my foreign friends struggle to learn the ...

Casual greetings, a self-introduction and phrases about her favorite food seem to roll off Jasmine Butcher’s tongue in Chinese just as easily as if she were speaking her native English. “I really love ...

A few days ago, I attended a conference hosted by one of the major think tanks in South Korea. It was a bilingual (Chinese-Korean) forum, and a little surprisingly most of the scholars from South ...

An introduction to the fundamentals of modern standard Chinese (Mandarin), including pronunciation, Chinese characters, grammar, and conversation. Students develop all four skills (listening, speaking ...