Entrepreneur and venture capitalist ShaoLan Hsueh has developed a simple methodology -- called Chineasy -- to allow non-Chinese readers to learn written Chinese characters. Chineasy-- which aims to ...

This system of illustrated characters and animations was developed to help people learn to read Chinese, and is one of the 76 projects nominated for Designs of the Year 2014 (+ slideshow). Taiwan-born ...

Taiwanese Internet entrepreneur Hsueh Shao-lan (薛曉嵐) developed her picture-based method of learning Chinese characters in the hopes that it would help her UK-raised children pick up the language.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. ShaoLan Hsueh was born and raised in Taiwan, the daughter of a calligrapher and a ceramic artist. “I grew up in this ...

Chineasy uses pared-down graphics to ease the process of learning one of the world’s toughest languages. There are some 20,000 characters in contemporary written Chinese. Knowing about 4,000 is ...

While interest in China and things Chinese may be stronger than ever, learning how to write the language remains stubbornly difficult. Now, Taiwan-born Shaolan Hsueh, who describes herself as an ...

Learning Mandarin or Cantonese may be all the rage but there’s one rather hefty stumbling block: Chinese is the hardest written language in the world. How do you find a way into that forest of ...

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