Learning simple Mandarin Chinese phrases and words is easier than it seems. While the prospect of learning a new language may ...

Most of the world’s languages are written alphabetically; in an alphabetic writing system the basic components represent sounds only without any reference to meaning. For example, the letter “b” in ...

An introduction to China and Mandarin, the official Chinese language. Mandarin is taught in schools using pinyin, a romanised, phonetic system of writing Chinese. There’s a brief introduction to ...