Bun Bang Fai is an annual rocket festival to mark the start of the crop growing season.
I’m a 76-year-old medical journalist, podcaster and jazz musician and here’s why I started studying Mandarin Chinese at SOAS.
Translated literally, Ohanami means ‘looking at flowers’. It’s a unique part of Japanese culture dating back more than a thousand years.
Applications for German, French and Russian are falling, whereas non-European languages- such as Arabic and Japanese – have been experiencing a boom in popularity.
At the end of a 10-week course in Mandarin Chinese, attending for two-hours a week, students could learn around 150 ideographs.
