Is Mandarin More Efficient than English?

From my personal experience and understanding, Mandarin has a higher efficiency in…

Wu: A Dying Chinese Dialect

When I was doing a research paper on the social stratification of the United Kingdom last quarter, I noticed…

Anecdotes About Languages

Aside from English and my homeland language Chinese, I can also speak German. I have experienced an enormous cultural shock during my several-month stay in Berlin. In the United States, when people say how are you, it actually means hello. However, when I said how are you, which is…

Language and its influence on thoughts

Language is a form of a communication system between people and can be spoken or written…

Why Knowing One Language Can Be Harmful

The advancement in science and technology has been exceptional in the past few centuries…

Yes? No? The Importance of Tones in The Language

How Does German and English Link?

If someone is ranking the strangest countries among the world, he should definitely count India…

Language in Life

Southern Min or Min Nan is a native language in Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan and Zhejiang Provinces in Southern China, as well in numerous Chinese overseas diaspora communities in South East Asia. I speak the Zhenan Min Dialect of the Min Nan language, a dialect spoken in Cangnan Prefecture in…

What Makes Differences Between Chinese and Americans?

How the Conversation in English Relates to the Non-native English Speaker’s Mentality