| Hanyu Pinyin or not, I think most Chinese kids outside China shun the language. Formerly from Singapore and now in Australia, my daughter (7 yo) is starting to learn Chinese right now. Given a free choice, she would be ecstatic not to. Math, English, Science, Japanese, anything else is fine with her except Chinese! Same situation with her Chinese friends, most of them very bright kids with some inexplicable phobia of the language. Same dire situation with the Vietnamese Chinese, Indonesian Chinese or Filipino Chinese. I think the current generation of kids is lost to the language. And to think that I learnt Chinese using ZhuYingFuHao, which is like learning another language in itself. That was tough! |
Pinyin is Not Chinese