In this short lesson, I show you my favorite shortcut for typing Chinese much faster on your phone. Instead of spelling out ...

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 ...

In this short lesson, I walk you through the main Chinese Pinyin finals using simple flashcards and clear pronunciation. I say each final slowly, then a bit faster, so you can repeat after me and feel ...

The phonetic alphabet developed by Zhou Youguang, pinyin, turns 50 this month, having helped up to a billion Chinese citizens to learn to read, write and in many cases speak the national language. The ...

Zhou Youguang, an economist-turned-linguist known as the father of the pinyin system of romanisation for Mandarin and who later become an outspoken critic of the communist government, has died at age ...