In this quick lesson, I show how the single sound shi can mean many different things in Chinese, from city to release and ...
Languages are either syllable-timed, where all the syllables in a word last for the same amount of time, even when syllables are stressed, or stress-timed, where stressed syllables are pronounced at ...
An eighteenth-century cataloguing project lays bare the tangled roots of colonialism ...
This is the second of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the second of eight other consonant programmes in our series of videos that explore ...
A Chinese lesson at Xiachengzi Junior High School in Muling, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] BEIJING -- The number of Chinese people who speak Putonghua, ...