When President Obama welcomed Chinese President Hu Jintao to the White House on Wednesday, he was joined by a group of students from Washington, D.C.'s Yu Ying Public Charter School. It's a ...

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In this short video, I teach you how to write the HSK 1 Chinese character 大 da, which means big. I demonstrate the correct ...

To a non-Chinese speaker (like me), and especially to a Westerner (like me), Chinese is the most impenetrable family of languages on Earth. While there may be only an eighth as many syllables as in ...

Chinese, the most commonly spoken language in the world, is challenging to master. Rather than an alphabet, Chinese has thousands of characters. On top of that, the language is tonal, so how you speak ...

I've been studying Mandarin Chinese for about a decade, and even after many classes, living in Beijing, and countless hours of studying and practicing, the learning process can still be painfully ...

Viki, a streaming site that lets you watch Asian dramas, now has a translation tool called “Learn Mode” to help you learn Chinese and Korean. It’s not effortless, as learning languages never is, but ...

I’ve been following Mark Zuckerberg’s path to mastering Mandarin Chinese since his speech at Tsinghua University in Beijing in October 2014. At that event, Mark bravely managed to deliver his speech ...

In this short lesson, I teach you how to write the Chinese character 美, which means beautiful. I break it down stroke by ...

Western businesses have been trying to “get inside” the vast Chinese market since the days of Marco Polo – it’s one of the top prizes of global commerce, and one that continues to inspire a frenzy of ...