In China I found with surprise that the tones of most Chinese are not standard. Does that mean tones are not so important? The tones of local dialects are surely different from standard Mandarin. But ...

China's stand-up comedians have turned to the country’s diverse and rich cultural resources, particularly dialect humour, to ...

The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional dialects such as ... region when the Mongolian language was replaced by standard Mandarin as the language of instruction. China’s ruling ...

Chinese names in English often carry historical baggage ... The gold standard is to pronounce names in clear, standard Mandarin. For example, Zhang San should sound like “張三.” If tones are too ...

After English, comes Mandarin Chinese, which is used by approximately ... the World Other languages that appear in the top ten are Standard Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, and Urdu, all ...