Rather than an alphabet, Chinese has thousands of characters. On top of that, the language is tonal, so how you speak a word can completely change its meaning. So, why learn Chinese? For one ...

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and he really wants to speak in Chinese. (Speaking Mandarin)? "Why do you like learning Chinese?" I ask him. LUKAS WOUHIB: (Speaking Mandarin). FENG: "I like learning Chinese very much because it ...

Although she does not know how to speak Chinese, she was excited that her son had the opportunity to learn. “It’s a skill. Every skill you learn now is going to be useful. It doesn’t cost hi ...

That’s how you really learn a language. Of course, it helps that he gets such a positive, almost thrilled reaction to everything he says, simply because he’s speaking Chinese. This is not just ...

What about authors who read Chinese but cannot speak it? When I was learning Chinese in the 1950s, most of the professors at the main universities on both sides of the Atlantic could read the language ...

That's how you really learn a language. Of course, it helps that he gets such a positive, almost thrilled reaction to everything he says, simply because he's speaking Chinese. This is not just ...