The goal of my new book Chineasy is to allow people to learn to read Chinese easily by recognizing characters through simple illustrations and animations. By learning one small set of building blocks, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Growing up in Taiwan, ShaoLan Hsueh stuck out. She liked writing in Chinese. "I know all the children hated it, but I was a bit odd in that I loved writing Chinese characters," says Hsueh, the ...

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 ...

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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Her new book, Chineasy Everyday: Learning Chinese Through Its Culture, is a follow-up that can be used as a companion to the first book but was also designed to stand on its own for those who are new ...

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 ...

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