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Chinese, the most commonly spoken language in the world, is challenging to master. Rather than an alphabet, Chinese has thousands of characters. On top of that, the language is tonal, so how you speak ...

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To a non-Chinese speaker (like me), and especially to a Westerner (like me), Chinese is the most impenetrable family of languages on Earth. While there may be only an eighth as many syllables as in ...

Falcons are fast, spirited, high-flying birds. FALCON students are not much different. Participants in the Department of Asian Studies' Full-year Asian Language Concentration become nearly fluent in ...