Rhode Island School of Design student Yangyang Ding has created a series of metal instruments to help Mandarin speakers pronounce difficult English sounds. Yangyang Ding's pronunciation tools help ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the relaxed cadences of her native Taiwan, Kelly Chuang instructed her students to repeat after her. “Wo bu shi taiwan ren. Wo shi meiguo ren” — “I’m not Taiwanese. I’m American.” She projected the ...