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 ...

Learning simple Mandarin Chinese phrases and ... Chinese words with the Roman alphabet. For example, the word for hello, 你好, would be written “nǐ hǎo.” Pinyin is much quicker to learn ...

In academic research, identifying authorship is a unique challenge for Chinese researchers when their names are presented solely in pinyin and might be shared by other researchers whose names are ...

Pinyin is arguably the ... is one of the main reasons why many Chinese learners (both native and non-native) find it to be a lot more challenging than Mandarin. For Hongkongers, learning Cantonese ...