Learning simple Mandarin Chinese phrases and words is easier than it seems. While the prospect of learning a new language may ...

Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so the Chinese invented pinyin to help their learners. They took the letters of the Roman alphabet, the same we use for ...

Radicals are used to group Mandarin characters in Chinese dictionaries, but they can also sometimes help you to guess the meaning of those characters. There are more than 200 radicals in total ...