Students study Chinese in a class at the Confucius Institute at the National University of Equatorial Guinea in Malabo.

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 ...

I’ve been following Mark Zuckerberg’s path to mastering Mandarin Chinese since his speech at Tsinghua University in Beijing in October 2014. At that event, Mark bravely managed to deliver his speech ...

To a non-Chinese speaker (like me), and especially to a Westerner (like me), Chinese is the most impenetrable family of languages on Earth. While there may be only an eighth as many syllables as in ...

At the just-concluded 2024 World Chinese Language Conference, participants said that Chinese language learning plays a very important role in promoting mutual learning among civilizations and ...