Portland Public Schools is home to an innovative K-12 Mandarin immersion program that has multiple points of entry and pathways to advanced Chinese language proficiency. CELIN Briefs on Chinese ...

Mandarin characters have developed over approximately 4,000 years. But Mandarin characters aren't letters that tell you how a word sounds - they're more like pictures or symbols. You see ...

Pinyin is arguably the easiest way of learning the pronunciations of characters ... why many Chinese learners (both native and non-native) find it to be a lot more challenging than Mandarin.