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 ...

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

If you're like me, and can speak some tentative Mandarin but can't read or ... I was asked to match characters with their pinyin (Romanized Chinese) syllables, translate pinyin syllables back ...

Poon says the large amount of finals is one of the main reasons why many Chinese learners ... more challenging than Mandarin. For Hongkongers, learning Cantonese Pinyin is also “optional ...

Well, you're not alone. It's a challenge many of us face, and it stems from the way Chinese names are romanized using Pinyin, the standardized system for Mandarin pronunciation. The ...