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Mandarin characters don’t tell you how to pronounce a word. They are more like pictures that represent an object or an idea. Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so ...

The mini-guides below will give you an insight into the Chinese tones and characters as well as pinyin. There's also a section on useful sites elsewhere. Search term ...

The folks at Wei Li Corporate Services Ltd have spent the last five years developing Chinese versions of the two best selling board games in the world (Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit) one of which is a ...

Ever since I lived in Taiwan as a child, I've wanted to learn Mandarin. I was supposed to do that at university but decided on Hindi. Then I was supposed to move to the Chinese mainland after Japan ...