Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

To a non-Chinese speaker (like me), and especially to a Westerner (like me), Chinese is the most impenetrable family of languages on Earth. While there may be only an eighth as many syllables as in ...

Learning a new language is all about practice, but sometimes you don't have someone to practice with. Microsoft's new (and aptly-named) Learn Chinese app wants you to pick up the language with the ...

It’s Friday night in Ikebukuro, a Tokyo entertainment district full of cheap bars and pachinko parlors. As the office workers head to their favorite watering holes, three salarymen split from the ...

In this short video I introduce my Chinese MasterCourse for complete beginners and early learners. I walk you through what is inside the program, from the alphabet section to interactive exercises and ...