Mandarin Chinese is the most common language in the world, estimated to be spoken by more than 1.2 billion people in countries like China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia. With so many ...

Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so the Chinese invented pinyin to help their learners. They took the letters of the Roman alphabet, the same we use for ...

Chinese scientists told the Post that publishing under just their pinyin name - in English-language journals in which Mandarin is represented in the Latin alphabet - was challenging when it came ...

Learning simple Mandarin ... to learn Chinese pronunciation quickly: through pinyin. Pinyin is a system of romanizing Chinese characters, a.k.a. writing Chinese words with the Roman alphabet.