Lia Liu on MSN
One sound, many characters: why Chinese pinyin is tricky
In this short lesson I show how wild Mandarin is using one sound yi. When I type yi on my keyboard, dozens of characters ...
Mandarin characters don’t tell you how to pronounce a word. They are more like pictures that represent an object or an idea. Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don’t give us the sound of a word, so ...
Have you ever felt lost when trying to pronounce or understand a Chinese name? Well, you're not alone. It's a challenge many of us face, and it stems from the way Chinese names are romanized using ...
History Snob on MSN
How Mandarin was almost lost to modern technology
Sending a text message in Mandarin is no big deal today. The software handles so much of the work that it’s easy to miss what ...
Between 1993 and 1995, I taught English in Hsinchu for the China External Trade Development Council (CETRA). CETRA is now the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and its name change ...
The father of hanyu pinyin, Mr Zhou Youguang, turned 109 on Tuesday. The linguist and dissident came up with the system of transliterating Chinese characters into roman letters in the 1950s. The ...
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