Have you ever felt lost when trying to pronounce or understand a Chinese name? Well, you're not alone. It's a challenge many of us face, and it stems from the way Chinese names are romanized using ...

so the Chinese invented pinyin to help their learners. They took the letters of the Roman alphabet, the same we use for English, and used it to create 23 initials, the start of a syllable ...

In one lesson, I was asked to match characters with their pinyin (Romanized Chinese) syllables, translate pinyin syllables back to characters, match spoken Chinese words to their pinyin syllables ...