I introduced "Pinyin," which is common in mainland China, and "Zhuyin" (Bopomofo), which is common in Taiwan, as methods for ...

When a foreigner asked me, "Why isn't Japanese just hiragana?", I looked into the origins of kanji.Naturally, it is a ...

Wong Yee Keong, 71, a father of two and grandfather of three, has become the Singapore University of Social Sciences' oldest ...

Speeding the availability of language resources for endangered languages. Tools such as this have the power to shift how we think about endangered languages. Rather than perceiving them as being ...

Google Pinyin Input offers us support to type in characters belonging to the Chinese alphabet by means of a Latin keyboard in a simple and fast manner Google has developed for Android phones a ...

Mandarin Chinese is spoken by over a billion people across Asia and around the world, making it a useful language for travelers to know. Learning pinyin, which romanizes Chinese characters, can ...

Bring languages to life in your classroom with this engaging Chinese Alphabet Name Writing activity! Perfect for KS1, KS2, and lower KS3, this resource introduces pupils to Pinyin letter names in ...

Für Europäer ist die schiere Zahl der Zeichen eine Barriere – es gibt etwa 50.000. Dass daneben auch noch Ausspracheregeln, Mehrfachbedeutungen und Schreibweisen das Verständnis besonders für den ...

Manche Menschen lernen Sprachen scheinbar mühelos. Ein bisschen Vokabeln, ein paar Serien in Originalsprache – und schon läuft es. Doch dann gibt es Sprachen, die selbst hartnäckige Sprachgenies an ...

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