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Master Chinese pinyin finals in one quick lesson

In this short lesson, I walk you through the main Chinese Pinyin finals using simple flashcards and clear pronunciation. I ...
BBC

What is pinyin?

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 ...
The Guardian

Sound principles

The phonetic alphabet developed by Zhou Youguang, pinyin, turns 50 this month, having helped up to a billion Chinese citizens to learn to read, write and in many cases speak the national language. The ...
The Taipei Times

Pinyin and a Taiwanese identity

Between 1993 and 1995, I taught English in Hsinchu for the China External Trade Development Council (CETRA). CETRA is now the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and its name change ...
The Straits Times

Father of hanyu pinyin turns 109: 5 things about the system he invented

The father of hanyu pinyin, Mr Zhou Youguang, turned 109 on Tuesday. The linguist and dissident came up with the system of transliterating Chinese characters into roman letters in the 1950s. The ...