One of my biggest frustrations with reading in one of the few foreign languages I’ve dabbled in is how long it takes to look up all the words I don’t know (which, admittedly, is a lot of them). It’s ...

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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 ...

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, ...

Many Chinese learners struggle with word order (语序, yǔ xù) when they are trying to make sentences in Chinese. Even some advanced students make grammatical mistakes (语法错误, yǔ fǎ cuò wù) from time to ...