Improve your Chinese with Netflix

Improve your Chinese with Netflix

Movies, television and Netflix are an excellent resource for learning Chinese. There is an ever-growing body of research which confirms that learning with audio and visual media is highly effective.  In some countries, such as the Netherlands, high levels of foreign language acquisition have been attributed to local television channels showing all foreign movies and TV shows in their original language. Subtitles are added but these programmes are never […]

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The Value of Learning Chinese

The Value of Learning Chinese

Chinese has firmly established itself alongside English as one of the most important languages for 21st Century learners. As Chinese grows in popularity, it is becoming apparent that an international education is incomplete without the opportunity to learn Chinese. Schools in Europe and US teaching Mandarin Chinese Mandarin Chinese is the first language of 873 million people and the second language of 178 million people. […]

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What is Hanyu Pinyin?

What is Hanyu Pinyin?

Pinyin, or Hànyǔ Pīnyīn as it is formally known, is the Romanization of Chinese characters based on their pronunciation. ‘Pin Yin’ (拼音) translates into English as ‘spell sound’. This is exactly what Pinyin enables us to do, spell how Chinese words sound, using the Roman alphabet. The history of Pinyin During the 1950s, Zhou Youguang, the Father of Pinyin and a team of linguists developed the system […]

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International Women’s Day China

International Women’s Day China

International Women’s Day provides communities with an opportunity to reflect on the progress of gender equality and equal opportunities. In China, where unparalleled economic growth has transformed the country from an agrarian society  to a economy challenging the US for dominance of the global high-tech economy, much progress is still needed. The lives of China’s one billion population have been propelled into a consumer-driven, technology-laden 21st Century lifestyles. However, […]

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