Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so the Chinese invented pinyin to help their learners. They took the letters of the Roman alphabet, the same we use for ...

Pinyin is arguably the easiest way of learning the pronunciations of characters. However, while it is mandatory for many students in Hong Kong to learn Hanyu Pinyin in Putonghua classes, Cantonese ...

As a result of climate change, English wine producers are now able to grow grapes traditionally associated with Champagne and producing top-quality sparkling wine. After more than 300 years ...

Can France claim the first periodic table? Probably not, but a French Geology Professor made a significant advance towards it, even though at the time few people were aware of it. Alexandre Béguyer de ...

Up to date league tables for the top British leagues, including the Premier League, Sky Bet Championship, League One and League Two. As well as the Scottish Premiership, Championship, League One ...

The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

How do players score in table tennis? A point can be won on every serve and a player can score a point whether he or she is serving or receiving. A player scores a point if the opponent does any of ...

Let’s start off by talking about cash in China. While many videos and articles online do talk about how cashless the society ...