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, ...

Last month ShaoLan Hsueh found herself at a press conference in Taiwan to promote Chineasy, a highly visual method for learning the Chinese language she had developed over the past few years. It made ...

Mobile phone-based games could provide a new way to teach basic knowledge of Chinese language characters that might be particularly helpful in underdeveloped rural areas of China, say researchers.

Growing up in Taiwan, ShaoLan Hsueh stuck out. She liked writing in Chinese. "I know all the children hated it, but I was a bit odd in that I loved writing Chinese characters," says Hsueh, the ...

Chance has been writing about tech since 2011, including news, reviews, interviews with CEOs and founders, and event coverage at industry expos like CES, IFA, and COMPUTEX. He has also contributed ...

Mandarin Chinese is spoken by over a billion people across Asia and around the globe, making it a useful language for travelers to know. Learning pinyin, which romanizes Chinese characters, can ...

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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 ...