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 ...

Karen I. Chen is a writer, editor, and travel advisor. Karen's work has appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal, Food & Wine, Departures, and more. While the prospect of ...

Cantonese Pinyin is rarely used to learn pronunciations of Traditional Chinese. So, Young Post chatted with Poon Hon-kwong, Associate Professor at Hong Kong University, to figure out the ...

But if you’re learning Chinese, you’ve seen his work. He helped develop the pinyin writing system – the romanised version of the Chinese language. You might recognise pinyin from your ...