Mandarin Chinese has nearly a billion native speakers ... and Hong Kong and Shanghainese in Shanghai. The Importance of Tones in Chinese The major complication in learning Chinese is that it's ...

This is a mini-guide to Chinese tones. You can either click "Start" and you will be guided from one section to another or you can click on the right-hand side to go to the section of your choice.

Journalist, blogger, podcaster and author Qin Xie previously explained for Metro : ‘Happy Chinese New Year is xin nian (new ...

Lexical tone is a crucial aspect of tonal languages like Mandarin and Cantonese, where the pitch or intonation used when pronouncing a word can change its meaning entirely. Recent research has ...

Mandarin Chinese has nearly a billion native speakers ... In the same way that you would use tone for emphasis or emotion in English, every word in Chinese has one of four tones that determines ...

For those interested in the Chinese language, the diversity and beauty of dialects should be a motive for you to immerse yourself in not just Mandarin, but in local dialects and regional life as well.

An introduction to China and Mandarin, the official Chinese language. It shows how Mandarin is taught in schools with the correct tones and using pinyin, a romanised form of spelling. There's a ...