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Pinyin is Not Chinese Hello, Wang, from meilide Bulgaria. I read your thoughts about the topic and I think that you just don`t except pinyin as it is - a transcription based on latin letters. It is tha transcription of Chinese langage, the same as English has it`s own transcription which everybody who had ever studied English remembers. It`s a huge problem with all the shengdiao, but I would say that all depends on the teacher who`s going to teach you Chinese. If he (or she) is good anough, there will be no problems to start from pinyin, only to understand that without the characters there is no Chinese. But you should really understand all those foreigners, who try their best to master the language. Did you noticed, in any other country in the world you can hear foreigners to speak fluent, but not Chinese. It`s just too old, too much related with Gudai Hanyu and the history and culture, so for a lifetime you will probbably just reach a certain level, but never be brilliant. That`s the simple truth. I teach Chinese and wuthout pinyin we`re lost ;) Greetings, Yana |