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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

There are some 10,000 Chinese characters in common use. Basic literacy, according to the Chinese government, starts at two thousand characters. A solid grasp of a daily Beijing newspaper requires ...

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 ...

Reading in Chinese can be difficult for language learners. So ShaoLan Hsueh and a team of visual designers have created Chineasy, a new book of pictograms featuring more than 400 Chinese characters.

The language, she says, has more than 20,000 written characters, which most students in China learn by rote memorization. Ms. Hsueh's new book, "Chineasy," aims to simplify the symbols with ...

Today, students around the world are increasingly interested in learning Chinese. Some are drawn by the pull of a foreign culture or the challenges of Train Your Brain: Learn Chinese Characters ...