It doesn't haven't to be as daunting as it seems. The idea of learning Chinese likely strikes fear in your heart — or just completely mystifies you. And understandably so. It’s not an easy language to ...

The Great LOL of China, made in conjunction with Asia Society's China Learning Initiatives, is a bilingual video series starring Beijing-based American comedian Jesse Appell. The bi-weekly episodes ...

There are more than 80,000 Chinese characters in existence, though a non-native speaker can get by with 1,000 of the most commonly used ones. To make matters more complicated, the characters that make ...

In this short lesson I show you three innocent sounding Chinese phrases that actually have a cheeky hidden meaning. I break ...