By learning one small set of building blocks, students can build many new words, characters, phrases, and even sentences. In the past year, I broke down thousands of common Chinese characters and ...

With engaging exercises, the act of learning Chinese characters is precise, focussed and even addictive. By having the app readily available on your smartphone or device, users can fit ...

Chinese isn't the easiest language in the world to learn. Unlike our 26-letter Western alphabet, there are estimated to be more than 50,000 characters, depending on how one counts variants. However, ...

By Yi Zheng and Chris Livaccari “Yi, er, san . . .” A Chinese language student counts each stroke while writing the Chinese character for “big”, 大. This seems like a simple process, but new evidence ...

There seems no alternative, then, but to slavishly learn the 3,500 or so characters that account for at least 99% of use in written Chinese. This is hard even for native Chinese speakers, usually ...

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 ...

The first attempt was vastly different from the keyboard apps today, and centered on how Chinese characters are written. In August 1983, ... so the learning curve is quite steep.

Write your name — over and over. You’ll be surprised what you learn. By Jerrine Tan At the start of my first lesson in Chinese calligraphy, my teacher told me to write my name. After I ...