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You don't have to learn Chinese characters to learn Chinese! Hanyu pinyin allows you to read and write Chinese using roman characters.

Chinese is a useful language for travelers and business people. There are many routes to take when learning, but which is best?

Better to get a Chinese phrasebook than this. Not for seriously studying Chinese.

There's an interesting history to how Chinese writing came about.

With so many online educational programs, www.activechinese.com makes learning the Chinese language easy by being interactive.

For any students looking to learn Mandarin Chinese for fun, business or other reasons, this is the site for you.

The language of business is changing, adopting an Oriental flair. Learn more about how the Chinese language has become indispensable for doing business overseas.

Here are websites to help you learn almost any language for free.

Minnesota Education Commissioner Alice Seagren believes if "our students are going to succeed in a more globally competitive environment, it's essential that they learn a second language," including Chinese.

How to learn a foreign language, when immersion techniques are not available.

The whole project has to be retranslated from Chinese to Chinese. Confuse, you would better be.

For many, many reasons, the same Chinese last names have been romanized differently. Here's a key for some of the most common Chinese last names you'll ever see.

For Hundreds of years Chinese women have been prohibited from reading or writing, but what men don't know doesn't hurt anyone. Does it?

Mandarin Chinese is part of the corporate world. It is well past the time for individuals in the corporate world to learn international languages so they can keep up without relying on official and unofficial interpreters.

Looking at Chinese culture as it is depicted in Bound Feet, Western Dress: A Memoir from the perspective of one raised in America in the late twentieth century, Yu-i's experience of gender as a social construction may at first glance appear to be a wholly negative one.

If you grew up in a multicultural city such as New York, you've probably been exposed to more than 50 languages in a given year. But which one of them is the hardest to learn? Many say English for all of the different rules.

Learning a new language is often very difficult, but it doesn't have to be. For the most part people merely need to learn how to study.

Easy and intermediate craft levels for Chinese paper lanterns. Use as decorations or invitations to a Chinese New Year party this February.

Anna May Wong, a third-generation Chinese-American, managed to have a substantial acting career despite racism that prevented her from taking roles opposite Caucasian leading men

Chinglish is the ungainly - and endlessly humorous - spontaneous interpretation of the English language as written by some Chinese language speakers.

If you know anything about China, you know that the country is very diverse, not only culturally but linguistically as well. Although Mandarin and Cantonese are both forms of the Chinese language, they are as different as Spanish and Russian.

Helping your kids and yourself learn a foreign language is easier today than ever before.

Chinese New Year always calls for big celebrations in a lot of places where there are Chinese communities around the globe. In the United States, San Francisco, California has one of the most festivities to commemorate the Chinese New Year.

While it is true that most business people in the People's Republic of China speak fluent English, the fact is that you will establish much more credibility - as well as rapport - when you can demonstrate some willingness to speak the language of the country.

Based on ancient Chinese statistics, a Chinese pregnancy calendar predicts the gender of an unborn child. Using the mother's age and the date of the baby's conception, the calendar can tell if a baby will be a boy or a girl.

It's a decent romantic comedy and it did have some good moments, but I can't recommend that you seek it out because the story unfolds like a pilot from a light dramatic television series.

Effective techniques for learning a foreign language. The author discusses his personal experience teaching and learning a foreign language.

Learn a foreign language "Before You Know It," using this free program.

If a person is truly bilingual, meaning that he reads, writes and speaks two (or more) languages, his environment will determine which language he uses even more so than his native tongue.

Review and guide to Pimsleur Language programs.

In 1996, Peter Hessler completed an intensive training course in Chinese language and moved to Fuling, China. River Town: Two Years On The Yangtze, is the story of his two-year experience living and teaching English in Fuling, China.

When is Chinese New Year held? Why are red packets containing money given out? What is the significance of certain food dishes that are eaten, and the lion and dragon dances? This list will help parents and educators who want to learn more about this festival.

As a student researching the cultural differences between Eastern Asia and the Western world, I wanted to figure out if it were possible to adopt a Zen Buddhist lifestyle in America, a country of completely different values.

Satire is more readily used to influence Americans. Use the lessons as a guide to teach satire and allow students to benefit from the variety of satire available today.

Language is a medium of domination-the Brittish conquered the world with English, Americans are the super powers of the world and they use American English. China does not want to be left out on this language thing!

This article criticizes John Searle's Chinese Room argument, pointing out flaws in it before addressing Searle's possible defenses to those flaws, and then criticizing Searle's possible defenses.

Chinese baby names are among the most beautiful, and most misunderstood, in the world. This article will help you understand the process behind selecting an appropriate Chinese baby name.

The contribution of the Chinese writing system to the continuity of the Chinese civilization, the oldest in the world.

SATs, ACTs, GPAs, APs, etc. etc. Sometimes it seems as though the typical Chinese-American student is reduced to a list of very impressive statistics. A look into a common phenomenon.

A few tips and ideas for celebrating the Chinese New Year, including two easy craft ideas for making your own Chinese New Year cards, and lots of helpful links.

Answering to a Houston food critics blog stating that Houston Chinese restaurants cannot produce authentic Chinese food.

Although we do not often think about it, language plays a major role in shaping the world that we live in and how we have the experiences that we do. This article looks at just how powerful that role is.

The pet food recall story started in the middle of March. Now, in early May we get the latest in a series of stories about which imported Chinese product was actually to blame. When will they get it right?

A quick look at the role of proverbs in Chinese culture.

Cantonese is both the term for the people and the language. Some of the world's most famous Chinese celebrities have been and spoken Cantonese, including Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, and Chow Yun Fat.