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 ...

Smartphones intended for use by Chinese speakers often include Pinyin keyboard apps, and they’re also available in app stores. But mapping the Latin alphabet to Chinese characters is not easy ...