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Articles Chinese Pinyin is the written sound of the Chinese language with the Roman alphabet. Chinese Pinyin can make it much easier for Westerners to learn to read Chinese and learn to write Chinese as well. Romanization estimates the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese words with Western spellings and includes tone marks to signify the pitch of a word in order to make it easier to learn to speak the Chinese language. After learning Pinyin, you can easily learn to read Chinese books with Pinyin marked, learn Chinese characters by looking in the dictionary, or type Chinese characters into your computer. Pinyin can definitely take your ability to learn Chinese to a higher level. 25 out of the 26 English alphabet letters are used in Pinyin. The letter v is not used, but the letter ü is added to represent the vowel sound of yu. Although most of the Chinese sounds are generally close to how they are used and pronounced in English, some don't follow English letters exactly and are pronounced differently. Pay extra attention to the differences and listen closely to each Chinese sound when you are learning to speak Chinese; it takes practice to learn to pronounce the Chinese language correctly. Just like the English alphabet Pinyin provides a phonetic alphabet for Chinese and is taught from first grade in Chinese elementary schools. It is a fundamental tool used for learning to write Chinese characters and throughout the learning of the Chinese language. Pinyin is used by most modern Chinese dictionaries to denote the pronunciation of characters and to help to learn how to pronounce Chinese characters. It is also an efficient input method in Chinese computer software, which is natively supported by Microsoft Windows OS. |
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