Lesson Comments
My question is only about written communication of course. I guess I am stating the obvious when I say that to read 'pinyin' is exceedingly difficult... Read more
I asked them for the hanzi because I didn't know all the characters. (I kind of expected them to automatically write both at this stage of their educ... Read more
Changye: It's not a fair comparison. Everyone who has studied Mandarin has spent a thosand times more time reading characters than reading pinyin.... Read more
Chinese people speak Mandarin without showing Chinese characters with each other, but there is no difficulty communicating. In conversation, tones wor... Read more
Bodawei: I can only see these facts: The Dungan dialect is close enough to Mandarin for them to be mutually intelligible, at least after some exposure... Read more
Hi bodawei, You are saying that the Chinese fourth graders in the class still can't write Hanyu pinyin well. Am I right? Read more
Thanks for the explanation on Dungan - sorry I came into this discussion late. The rest of it I am still trying to get my head around, particular... Read more
Just for the record, Vietnamese, which had long been written only in Hanzi, was completely romanized after World War II. Read more
Was reviewing the supplementary vocabulary, and was looking for confirmation on how to say this sentence. I'm going to heat up the food in the micr... Read more
Hi bodawei I think the pupils could write pinyin better when they were first graders. In a sense, we foreign learners of Mandarin might be able to... Read more