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 ...

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 ...

He said the practice of using words such as "islands" and "reef" for English translations had ... adding that the mixed usage ...

He helped develop the pinyin writing system – the romanised version of the Chinese language ... (think of these as the first syllable of a word), 37 finals (similar to vowels in English ...