It doesn't haven't to be as daunting as it seems. The idea of learning Chinese likely strikes fear in your heart — or just completely mystifies you. And understandably so. It’s not an easy language to ...

There are more than 80,000 Chinese characters in existence, though a non-native speaker can get by with 1,000 of the most commonly used ones. To make matters more complicated, the characters that make ...

In this short skit, I play both a Chinese mom and a Chinese kid to teach you how we stay polite in everyday Mandarin. You will hear and see key phrases like 对不起, 我没钱, 谢谢, and 请我吃饭, with pinyin and ...

In this short Mandarin lesson, I act out everyday phrases like starving to death, freezing to death and tired to death to show how Chinese people use si le after adjectives to mean extremely. I ...

In the Chinese language, animals are often used to help explain ideas. The snake is among the ones more commonly featured in idioms. Before the Year of the Snake dawns, we look at some of the most ...