Learning the Chinese alphabet

Introduction: If you want to learn a new language from basic and to write in a language completely different from your own can be challenging. The Chinese phonetic alphabet is also known as bopomofo, after its first four letters: bo, po, mo, and fo, similar to  English as we use the alphabet as “the ABCs.”…

Chinese Pronunciation: The Ultimate Guide

Introduction: Chinese is a group of language varieties that form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages, spoken by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China. About 1.3 billion people (or approximately 16% of the world’s population) speak a variety of Chinese as their first language. The spoken varieties…