According to the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Service Institute, Chinese is a Class III language—the most difficult to master—and requires 2,200 hours of rigorous study to gain general ...

Mandarin Chinese is the most common language in the world, estimated to be spoken by more than 1.2 billion people in countries like China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia. With so many ...

DeFrancis cites the "increasing vernacularisation of the Chinese writing style" as a potential factor in the death of characters. Academic and literary Chinese are dense forms of the language ...

There’s a brief introduction to how Chinese characters are formed and how calligraphy is still practised as an art. ... After showing students the clip, practise the basic Chinese greetings.

Entrepreneur ShaoLan Hsueh wants to change that with Chineasy: A New Way To Read Chinese. In the book, just out from Harper Design, renowned illustrator Noma Bar reimagined Chinese characters as ...