Mandarin Chinese is spoken by over a billion people across Asia and around the world, making it a useful language for travelers to know. Learning pinyin, which romanizes Chinese characters, can ...
Mandarin characters don’t tell you how to pronounce a word. They are more like pictures that represent an object or an idea. Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so ...
Hanyu Pinyin, or the Chinese phonetic system, will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Monday (Feb. 11). One billion Chinese have used it to learn mandarin since the first edition of pinyin was issued ...