Many parents spare no efforts in brushing up their children's language skills - and not just in English. Demand for Putonghua teachers is soaring as China's clout in the global economy increases...
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12 Dec 2012
A mainland publishing house was given 27 million yuan (HK$33.2 million) in state funding to revise the Hanyu Da Cidian (Comprehensive Chinese Word Dictionary), in the first revision of the premier...
9 Sep 2012
My son has been learning Putonghua at school and I want him to make progress. But I am not a Putonghua speaker, so how can I help?
3 Sep 2012
Nations with a proud history and culture are also likely to be jealously protective of their language. For a country fast on the rise like China, that is guaranteed to be doubly so.
29 Aug 2012
A group of Chinese academics has said English-language abbreviations that have become part of everyday life on the mainland should be struck from the country’s top dictionary.
When four Americans came to Hong Kong in 2005 to sing at the opening of Disneyland they had little idea what they would be doing four years later - singing unaccompanied in two Chinese dialects,...
Census department's population projections begin to wobble
Designated Drivers: How China Plans to Dominate the Global Auto Industry
by G.E. Anderson
Wiley
Putonghua is a vital language for us
Putonghua, also known as Mandarin, is the mainland's official language. In Hong Kong, it is the third language all students have to learn as a...
Of all the Chinese who have emigrated from Hong Kong to the UK, the vast majority have been from the New Territories.
Mainland producers, hampered by a lack of big-name Chinese musicals, are adapting and translating more Western works into Putonghua, but one expert has questioned whether that is the best way to...
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