In this short lesson, I walk you through the basic Chinese Pinyin initials using my flashcards and clear mouth shapes. I pronounce each sound slowly so you can repeat after me and feel more confident ...

Ever since I lived in Taiwan as a child, I've wanted to learn Mandarin. I was supposed to do that at university but decided on Hindi. Then I was supposed to move to the Chinese mainland after Japan ...

Today’s Google doodle pays homage to the Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang on what would have been his 112th birthday. Youguang helped create the Chinese phonetic alphabet called Pinyin. He spent three ...