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 ...

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 ...