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 ...

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 ...

The father of hanyu pinyin, Mr Zhou Youguang, turned 109 on Tuesday. The linguist and dissident came up with the system of transliterating Chinese characters into roman letters in the 1950s. The ...