Zhou Youguang, the inventor of a system to convert Chinese characters into words with the Roman alphabet, died Saturday at the age of 111. Since his system was introduced nearly six decades ago, few ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Few days ago I wrote about Duolingo, a fun app to learn new languages. The popular app features ...

Today’s Google doodle pays homage to the Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang on what would have been his 112th birthday. Youguang helped create the Chinese phonetic alphabet called Pinyin. He spent three ...

If you are a Chinese Singaporean of a certain vintage, like me, you would have gone through the days of being known by a hanyu pinyin name. I grew up in the 1980s, the first decade of the Speak ...