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 ...

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 ...

Simple Chinese words can be heard when walking the main streets of Cape Town, arriving at passport control at Johannesburg airport, and while negotiating commodity prices in Durban. An increasing ...