Learning simple Mandarin Chinese phrases and words is easier than it seems. Mandarin Chinese is the most common language in ...

“some of the Cantonese tones are derived from classical Chinese, which was developed over a thousand years ago.” Zhou Youguang, whose Pinyin writing system helped modernise China, dies at 111 ...

An introduction to China and Mandarin, the official Chinese language. Mandarin is taught in schools using pinyin, a romanised, phonetic system of writing Chinese. There’s a brief introduction to ...

However, among all of these writing systems, Chinese characters, Hanzi, hold a special place in my heart as being the most elegant and aesthetic. Despite the practical limitations of Chinese ...