Challenges in Learning Mandarin Chinese

Adrian Edlington asked: Mandarin Chinese is an interesting language. Partly because of it’s formidable reputation as a “hard” or nigh on “impossible” language to learn for us native Enlish speakers. What I’d like to do in this article is dispel some of the misnomers and mistruths surrounding learning to speak Chinese…There are two main aspects [...]

Learn Mandarin Using Phonetic English

Timothy Green asked: By using English phonics, you can eliminate many of the complications of learning to speak Mandarin. Native English speakers no longer need to trudge through the old fashioned and ineffective Wade-Giles method, or struggle with the current, but just as difficult Pinyin Chinese to speak Mandarin. There’s an easier way! Words and [...]