You can read/ recognise about 150 Chinese characters, and handwrite about 50 characters. You can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases. You can introduce yourself and ...

If you want to greet your relatives or impress your friends, here are some popular Mandarin and Cantonese phrases, and how to pronounce them.

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 ...

so why not brush up on your Mandarin before heading out to celebrate? As the most widely spoken Chinese language, Mandarin is used by over 730 million speakers. But it is notoriously difficult for non ...