Complete with more than 400 audio demonstrations for all Mandarin syllables and over 90 video explanations for difficult-to-pronounce Mandarin sounds, the pinyin chart provides clear pronunciation ...

Pinyin was invented to help people learn the pronunciation of Mandarin characters. The following sounds do not follow this general rule - they should be read as a whole, rather than separated into ...

DENVER - Researchers have found a way to reverse what appears to be a universal decline in foreign language speech perception that begins toward the end of the first year of life. University of ...

It's often said that babies are like sponges, but they don't just soak everything up without analyzing what they're getting. According to a Ted Talk by Patricia Kuhl, the director of the National ...

Kelly Chuang, standing, teaches Mandarin to Crystal Huang at Chinese School of San Marino on April 1. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) In the relaxed cadences of her native Taiwan, Kelly Chuang ...

Recent studies on how language learning occurs are beginning to chip away at some long-held notions about second-language acquisition and point to potential learning benefits for students who speak ...