With an estimated 100 million non-Chinese around the world learning Putonghua, Cantonese remains opaque to foreigners. There is no standardized teaching platform. Some have advanced the opinion that ...

First grade teacher Suzy Tom leads a class and demonstrates the order of character strokes at the Alice Fong Yu school in San Francisco, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. The school is the nation's first ...

Now, before anybody says it, I know that the best way to learn a language is to immerse yourself in it. I, however, do not have the time or money to go live in Hong Kong for a year or more so I can't ...

As an Indian growing up in Hong Kong, he was already the odd one out, but when he opened his mouth to speak Cantonese, he said people would see his face and "do a double take". As he fluently shifts ...

The inevitable finally happened. Last month, during a Chinese New Year dinner at a seafood restaurant in Sham Shui Po, a working-class neighborhood in Kowloon, my wife’s uncle said something that I ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Three decades ago, finding opportunities to learn Cantonese in San Francisco wasn't hard. But today in the city that's drawn Cantonese speakers from South China for over 150 years, ...