For example, the letter “b” in English represents a voiced bilabial stop, but no particular meaning can be attached to it in its function as a letter of the alphabet. Chinese writing is logographic, ...

Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today ...

Having spent time studying world languages, I have had the chance to learn and write a number of different scripts, from the standard Latin alphabet to the Japanese Kana, and many more. However ...