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 ...

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 ...

FEW people live to 111. Fewer still leave as big a mark on linguistic lives as Zhou Youguang, who died on January 14th. Mr Zhou was the chief architect of pinyin, the system that the Chinese use to ...

My resource is a comprehensive Chinese Mandarin Pinyin learning tool focused on the basic vowels “a,” “o,” and “e.” It includes a variety of interactive games designed to engage learners and reinforce ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Swinburne University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. I am currently learning Mandarin Chinese. I am just a beginner, only in the middle of level two. It is the ...

Mandarin Chinese flashcards for use in the classroom, or for self-study! This PDF document contains 5 A4 pages of picture flashcards to print, a total of 15 different colours in Chinese. Each page ...