Mandarin Chinese is the most common language in the world, estimated to be spoken by more than 1.2 billion people in countries like China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia. With so many ...

Many Chinese learners struggle with word order (语序, yǔ xù) when they are trying to make sentences in Chinese. Even some advanced students make grammatical mistakes (语法错误, yǔ fǎ cuò wù) from time to ...

To say it again - and again and again and again - this language is exponentially harder than any other I've studied during my long life in languages and linguistics, even Japanese. I knew my brain was ...

Above: Wu Qianlong says he is happy that Chinese has become a selective course for undergraduates at the University of Cape Town. Below: Wu teaching a class at the Confucius Institute. Provided to ...