tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020788067112119478.post4650110936545261376..comments2024-03-11T19:44:32.614+08:00Comments on Sex sells, so does Politics: Such stupidity to advocate the learning of dialects at the expense of English and Mandarin!Tan Ah Benghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00903332649732418818noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020788067112119478.post-15130539977815500322009-03-13T15:19:00.000+08:002009-03-13T15:19:00.000+08:00www.chinesetomorrow.comPinyin is a way to represen...<A HREF="http://www.chinesetomorrow.com" REL="nofollow">www.chinesetomorrow.com</A><BR/>Pinyin is a way to represent Chinese characters and express the sounds in the Chinese language using the alphabet. There are other systems to express Mandarin, but Pinyin is the most accepted and widely used. Once you learn Chinese Pinyin you will know how to pronounce any word in Mandarin using a Chinese dictionary. Pinyin is also the most common way to input Chinese characters into a computer. Although Pinyin and English both use the Roman alphabet, many letters are not expressed with the same sounds that English uses.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13957200459025057565noreply@blogger.com