At an event in China, Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid has demonstrated a real-time English-to-Mandarin speech-to-speech translation engine. Not only is the translation very accurate, but the ...

Well, it’s all over folks. As though we needed yet another reason to fear a dystopic virtual Facebook futureworld, Mark Zuckerberg now speaks Mandarin. We have no idea how he found time to casually ...

When I tell people I am from China, they immediately jump to conclusions. “I don’t hear an accent from you,” a college friend observed in a deeply analytical tone. “Where did you learn English?” the ...

The English language is not so easy to learn, especially when you come from an entirely different language area — that’s why we made a list of 11 common English mistakes made by Chinese speakers.