The goal of my new book Chineasy is to allow people to learn to read Chinese easily by recognizing characters through simple illustrations and animations. By learning one small set of building blocks, ...

In this short lesson, I walk you through five super simple Chinese characters and their meanings using my whiteboard. I say ...

Last month ShaoLan Hsueh found herself at a press conference in Taiwan to promote Chineasy, a highly visual method for learning the Chinese language she had developed over the past few years. It made ...

In this video, I show you just how easy it can be to start learning Chinese characters by using simple visuals that connect ...

One of my biggest frustrations with reading in one of the few foreign languages I’ve dabbled in is how long it takes to look up all the words I don’t know (which, admittedly, is a lot of them). It’s ...

Growing up in Taiwan, ShaoLan Hsueh stuck out. She liked writing in Chinese. "I know all the children hated it, but I was a bit odd in that I loved writing Chinese characters," says Hsueh, the ...

When President Obama welcomed Chinese President Hu Jintao to the White House on Wednesday, he was joined by a group of students from Washington, D.C.'s Yu Ying Public Charter School. It's a ...

Vol. 16, No. 2, Grand Challenges and Research Directions in e-Learning of the 21th Century (April 2013), pp. 174-187 (14 pages) ABSTRACT This paper reports the impacts of spontaneous student grouping ...

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