NEW YORK – In the shadow of Olympic venues, Brian Williams has anchored NBC's "Nightly News" this week in a city he calls Bay-jing. Yet Bob Costas, Meredith Vieira and many of NBC's sports announcers ...

BBC presenters have been given an Olympic pronunciation guide "the size of a very thick brick" after complaints they were incorrectly pronouncing Chinese names and words. Linguists at the BBC's ...

In this video, I compare the standard Mandarin Chinese pronunciation with the Beijing accent for several everyday words. I share examples like 'go out,' 'where,' 'bro,' and more, so you can hear the ...