Speak excellent Chinese with accurate pronunciation and tones, OK if in slightly lower than natural speed. Understand basic grammar rules. Be able to engage in communications on topics taught in the ...

Tessa Hulls’s “Feeding Ghosts” chronicles how China’s history shaped her family. But first, she had to tackle some basics. “My grandmother’s memoir was this locked box,” Tessa Hulls said.

The STARTALK Chinese Language and Culture program just concluded its second year with a full class and parents requesting more. The department of world languages and literatures in the College of ...

Chinese language teaching is increasingly about memorising and repeating sounds and signs, without the meditative beauty that underlies the language. Pronunciation is not a relevant variable in a ...