I deleted the pinyin field from my Mandarin Anki deck because I think I learn better without being able to see pinyin for every sentence. → Read more
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If you need another way to practice writing Chinese characters, give Google Translate’s pinyin-generation feature a try. It’s a nice way to practice hanzi. → Read more  Leave a comment  普通话  Google, Google Translate, software, study, tips, translation, Web, writing, 中文, 拼音, 汉字 
You can make your Chinese typing lightening fast by using incomplete pinyin. Just type the first letter of each syllable, and let the smart pinyin system work it’s magic! → Read more 
Attention Mandarin beginners! Do you pronounce the pinyin syllables xue and shui the same? If so, find out why you shouldn’t and what the difference is. → Read more 
Gwoyeu Romatzyh is a now little-used romanisation system for Mandarin Chinese. It’s unusual in that it includes the tone in the actual spelling of each syllable, without using tone marks or numbers. → Read more 
Type v to get ü. Just a quick tip on typing u with an umlaut (aka diaeresis or trema) in pinyin input systems. You can also combine with number keys to get tone marks above the diaeresis: ǖ, ǘ, ǚ, ǜ. → Read more 
Just heard the news that the PRC government is going to abolish all use of Chinese characters, and replace them with pinyin. Bad times. → Read more
Most people use pinyin-based input methods to type Chinese. Another option is Wubi, and it offers a lot of advantages, especially for learners. Find out why. → Read more 
Every now and then you come across a new character and realise that you’ve never seen another one with the same pronunciation. Or, you hear a syllable in speech and think you must have misheard it because as far as you’re aware, that syllable doesn’t exist in Mandarin. → Read more 
Lost-theory Chinese has produced a freely available pinyin chart with audio. There’s no built-in audio player, but every possible syllable is available for download as a wav file. If you want to perfect your pronunciation, it might be worth adding them all to an Anki deck and using a microphone to fine tune the sounds you’re producing. → Read more |
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