Pinyin

amgmds
March 05, 2009, 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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lovveu
March 05, 2009, 03:07 AM

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

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calkins
March 05, 2009, 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.