In this quick Mandarin lesson, I break down how the sound yi can mean very different things in Chinese. In part 2 of my series, I walk through several characters for yi, like easy, art, benefit, ...

In this short lesson, I walk you through five super simple Chinese characters and their meanings using my whiteboard. I say each word in pinyin, show you how to write it, and explain what it means in ...

A mobile application, bluntly named Are You Dead, has gone viral in China, topping Apple's App Store charts for paid apps ...

Whether it’s the financial crash, the climate emergency or the breakdown of the international order, historian Adam Tooze has become the go-to guide to the radical new world we’ve entered ...

Unveiled in 1947, the MingKwai typewriter was the product of a Chinese novelist’s yearslong obsession to build a machine that ...

Liu, Y. and Luo, Y. (2026) A Corpus-Based Study of Musicality in Zhu Shenghao’s Translation of Shakespeare’s Four Great Tragedies. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 14, 425-438. doi: ...

Open AI has launched ChatGPT Translate, a standalone translation tool designed to challenge Google Translate. The ...

While workers worldwide ponder how artificial intelligence might affect their livelihoods, there’s one sector where that question is no longer hypothetical. Machine translation has reduced the amount ...

Do you struggle to write the perfect email at work? It can be difficult to know how formal or friendly to be when you are writing to a colleague, your boss, or somebody at another company. Can you use ...

OpenAI quietly launches ChatGPT Translate, a standalone AI translation tool focused on tone and context, signaling a potential challenge to Google Translate.