But there’s an easy way to learn Chinese pronunciation quickly: through pinyin. Pinyin is a system of romanizing Chinese characters, a.k.a. writing Chinese words with the Roman alphabet.

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 ...

While working in an advertising agency, the 25-year-old font designer noticed that many traditional Chinese font sets were missing characters that only exist in Cantonese. This realisation sparked ...