I break down how to pronounce all six Chinese vowels across four tones, making it simple for beginners to follow along. My ...

How should one ask for a Tsingtao? By John Hodgman Maggie writes: When ordering a Tsingtao, my husband uses what he considers the “correct” pronunciation. To me, it sounds as if he is mocking a ...

The first and only time I was on national television, I was giving a food tour to a travel TV show host around the San Gabriel Valley, proudly extolling the virtues of Cantonese roast duck, ...

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 ...

BUENOS AIRES—President Cristina Kirchner, under pressure here over the case of a dead Argentine prosecutor, courted new controversy on a state visit to China on Wednesday when she mocked Chinese ...

PRATO, Italy -- The "Made in Italy" label conjures images of little old men and women in aprons and spectacles stooped over wooden tables, cutting leather and sewing by hand in workshops that dot the ...