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 ...

find it to be a lot more challenging than Mandarin. For Hongkongers, learning Cantonese Pinyin is also “optional” to a certain extent. “They don’t have to rely on Pinyin to express ...

In an experiment with 35 native English-speaking adults, researchers tracked the brain activity of participants learning a miniature language called Mini Pinyin that is based on Mandarin but with ...

In addition to learning Mandarin’s complex characters and their specific sequences, students are introduced to Pinyin, a phonetic system that bridges Mandarin characters and digital ...