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 ...

Decoding words doesn’t play as large of a role in how Cantonese-speaking children living in the United States learn to read English as it does for children who speak only English at home or ...

More than 9,000km away from Hong Kong, a 17-year-old British teenager – who has never been to Hong Kong or southern China – is on a mission to keep Cantonese alive, after having mastered the language ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — 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 ...

First of all, I want to kick off this edition of My Hong Kong with a big “thank you” to everyone who sent messages of support, personal anecdotes and some food for thought in response to my last ...

Kim Torres was nervous as she stepped in front of two dozen classmates to perform the Cantonese dialogue she'd memorized. Although the language is her late mother's native language, the 23-year-old ...

When Kevin Harding, 30, fell in love with Alex Tse, 26, it became pretty clear that if he wanted 'in' with her family, he was going to need to learn Cantonese. "I didn't want to be just the standard ...