Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so the Chinese invented pinyin to help their learners. They took the letters of the Roman alphabet, the same we use for ...

Below are basic words in the Chinese language. Keep notes of a few things like Chinese characters, pronunciation and the pinyin. In Mandarin Chinese remember the most important part is the accuracy.

This promotion of Tongyong pinyin reflects Taiwan-identifying political elites seeking to supplant Guoyu with Taiwan-accented Mandarin as the prestige language variety in Taiwan. There is nothing new ...

Mandarin Chinese is the most common language ... But there’s an easy way to learn Chinese pronunciation quickly: through pinyin. Pinyin is a system of romanizing Chinese characters, a.k.a ...

find it to be a lot more challenging than Mandarin. For Hongkongers, learning Cantonese Pinyin is also “optional” to a certain extent. “They don’t have to rely on Pinyin to express ...