A native of Dongbei (Northeast China), Fang Yanhong said that while she is concerned about the dialect of her hometown, "the Beijing dialect is dying faster." Fang, a modern Chinese lecturer at ...

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We moved to Beijing, China, to start our journey as Chinese language students. We will spend the next month at LTL Language ...

Beijing’s dialect is disappearing, a victim of language standardisation in schools and offices BEIJING To the untutored ear, the Beijing dialect can sound like someone talking with a mouthful of ...

Beijing is a heady place for a tourist who can’t speak Mandarin. This was the uncontrived truth that surfaced during long conversations with friends and extensive Google searches on what to expect ...

Every Friday evening throughout the year, the English Corner at Renmin University of China said to be the "No 1 English Corner in Beijing" is swarming with hundreds of Chinese from different quarters ...