Pinyin

amgmds
 March 05, 2009 at 02:38 AM posted in General Discussion

As a beginner, I find it difficult to follow the dialogue and the wonderful postings as both use characters without pinyin. For the lessons it is inconceivable that you would expect anyone to understand the words if there is no pinyin. It makes the expansion portions almost incomprehensible. Please use pinyin in all dialogues.

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calkins
 March 05, 2009 at 10:49 AM

All of the dialogues, vocabulary, and expansion pages (as well as PDF) include pinyin.

As for posts, that's another story...from the Comments Policy:

Out of consideration for our Newbie and Elementary users, English translations should be provided with any Chinese (characters or pinyin) written in Newbie and Elementary lesson discussion posts.

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lovveu
 March 05, 2009 at 03:07 AM

Ok, I'll add pinyin on all my posts if it's in Chinese.