My Chinese has a southern accentI speak Chinese. That said, it is not the polished Mandarin spoken by people in Beijing. My Chinese has a fairly strong southern accent. This is because I worked in ...

While English tends to view the ‘Chinese language’ as a monolith, the phrase actually represents a large diversity of both written and spoken languages, many of which are not mutually understandable.

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4. Within Chinese, there are 848 million native Mandarin dialect speakers (the official language of mainland China and Taiwan). 5. There are also 77 million Wu speakers (centered on Shanghai). 6. 62 ...

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 ...

Organisers of a Speak Mandarin campaign in Singapore were red-faced after they debuted a banner with a slogan, to encourage people to use the Chinese language more in reading and communicating.

The study of the Chinese language opens the way to different important fields such as Chinese politics, economy, history or archaeology. But to study Chinese finally means to study a culture, a people ...