Lesson Comments
Regarding pinyin in Taiwan: 1. Bopomofo is the only learning vehicle for children. They don't learn pinyin at all, that I'm aware... Read more
Hi bodawei does anyone know more to the story about making the language easier to learn? At first, 毛泽东 (Mao Zedong) proposed to abolish Chine... Read more
you may want to check my table of phonetic components . it's far from complete, 148 for a total of over 800, but it gives you an idea. It allows yo... Read more
Hi bodawei You are right. Some sounds (and tones) in Chinese dialects can't be represented by Hanyu pinyin system. They are usually transcribed with... Read more
@changye as you say it is designed for putonghua pronunciation - but the learner faces or hears many variations on the sounds in the chart. Y... Read more
xiaophil, Those are great observations, and exactly the kind of thing we're going to be tackling in future episodes. Stay tuned! Read more
bodawei, You just intimated that the phonetic component helps - and then countered that with 'but it is not predictable'. Exactly. ... Read more
changye, I can't say with certainty that Hanyu Pinyin is becoming more popular with the Taiwanese people, but I have been hearing that (1) the gove... Read more
Hi shenyajin 请告诉我，让你开始学习日语的是什么歌曲？ Read more