Learning simple Mandarin Chinese phrases and words is easier than it seems.

Today’s Google doodle pays homage to the Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang on what would have been his 112th birthday. Youguang helped create the Chinese phonetic alphabet called Pinyin. He spent three ...

Mandarin characters don’t tell you how to pronounce a word. They are more like pictures that represent an object or an idea. Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so ...

The folks at Wei Li Corporate Services Ltd have spent the last five years developing Chinese versions of the two best selling board games in the world (Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit) one of which is a ...

Zhou Youguang, known as the father of Pinyin for creating the system of Romanized Chinese writing that has become the international standard since its introduction some 60 years ago, died Saturday in ...