In this video I sing the Chinese ABC song in a clear, slowed down version so you can follow along with every sound. I show ...

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 ...

Learning Chinese is a thing now. Mark Zuckerberg is doing it. Donald Trump’s granddaughter memorized a 13th-century Chinese poem for Xi Jinping, the president of China. Many Hollywood films depict ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the just-concluded 2024 World Chinese Language Conference, participants said that Chinese language learning plays a very important role in promoting mutual learning among civilizations and ...

What would it take to have five percent of American high school students learning Chinese by 2015? This essay recommends a national commitment and investments in teaching Chinese language and culture.