The goal of my new book Chineasy is to allow people to learn to read Chinese easily by recognizing characters through simple illustrations and animations. By learning one small set of building blocks, ...

What's significant about Chinese characters? Chinese characters are the system of symbols used to write Chinese. Unlike an alphabet, which represents only sounds, each Chinese character has a unique ...

In this short lesson, I walk you through five super simple Chinese characters and their meanings using my whiteboard. I say each word in pinyin, show you how to write it, and explain what it means in ...

Conflict between the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education and the Korean Language Society is heating up. As the former prepares to introduce Chinese character lessons in elementary and middle ...

I spent several years, and some of your tax dollars, trying to learn Chinese, so I need to say something about a new campaign to get that language into U.S. schools and colleges. The Asia Society just ...

Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) – With a map of China on the wall behind him, 14-year-old Yasser al-Shaalan studied the names of professions in a Chinese textbook, one of thousands of Saudi children now ...

RIYADH-With a map of China on the wall behind him, 14-year-old Yasser Shaalan studied the names of professions in a Chinese textbook, one of thousands of Saudi children now learning the language at ...