It doesn't haven't to be as daunting as it seems. The idea of learning Chinese likely strikes fear in your heart — or just completely mystifies you. And understandably so. It’s not an easy language to ...

There are more than 80,000 Chinese characters in existence, though a non-native speaker can get by with 1,000 of the most commonly used ones. To make matters more complicated, the characters that make ...

In this short Mandarin lesson, I act out everyday phrases like starving to death, freezing to death and tired to death to show how Chinese people use si le after adjectives to mean extremely. I ...

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 ...