Hanyu Pinyin, or simply Pinyin, is the the standard way of Romanising Chinese, or simply put, allows Chinese words to be written with the standard Latin Alphabet, A though to Z. Pinyin also uses tone markers (accents) to denote the four Mandarin tones. Pinyin provides a uniform way of documenting and thus standardising Chinese pronunciation. …
There is no doubt that Chinese is one of the more difficult languages for English speakers to learn. The approach I recommend can be summarised as follows: Start with learning spoken Chinese, initially emphasising pronunciation as it is hard to remember words if you have trouble with pronunciation. When you start put much less emphasis …
Chinese can refer to any number of what are known as Chinese dialects. What a non-Chinese speaker thinks of as Chinese is typically Mandarin Chinese, the dominant spoken form of Chinese and the official language of China. If you are completely new to Chinese then the best place to start is to understand what Chinese …
