Chinese writing is logographic, that is, every symbol either represents a word or a minimal unit of meaning. When I write the character , it not only has a sound, niu, it has a meaning, “cow.” Only a ...

American high school student Venus Rios sparked a flurry of chatter when she posted this week on Chinese social media ...

It is designed to help students develop skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing Chinese, with focus on expanding vocabulary, learning new characters, mastering grammatical structures, ...

Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today ...

Be able to engage in communications on topics taught in the textbook orally or in writing. You can express yourself in complex sentences or short paragraphs with limited vocabulary. Recognize 600 or ...

However, among all of these writing systems, Chinese characters, Hanzi, hold a special place in my heart as being the most elegant and aesthetic. Despite the practical limitations of Chinese ...