It's been shown that the left side of the brain processes language and the right side processes music; but what about a language like Mandarin Chinese, which is musical in nature with wide tonal ...

An introductory course in modern spoken and written Chinese, stressing oral-aural facility and the integration of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Five hours of ...

Many languages in the world make people break a sweat when they take up the task of trying to learn them. The difficulty of a language is fairly subjective and varies from person to person. Learning a ...

Take a walk through Chinatown in one of Australia's major capital cities, and you're more than likely to hear the Chinese dialect of Cantonese being spoken. It's a tonal, guttural language, and one ...

The very first cry of neonates is marked by their maternal language. This seems to be especially apparent in tonal languages, where pitch and pitch fluctuation determine the meaning of words. Chinese ...

Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today ...