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R.I.P.
by Chia 10y ago
R.I.P.
- WouterZ 10y agoI was taught pinyin at Chinese university - too bad the Chinese textbooks didn't include the genesis of pinyin - interesting, R.I.P.
- jason_slack 10y agoI am taking Mandarin classes and our textbook has both pinyin and characters for almost everything. There is always a section in each chapter that is entirely in characters. I have been buying books on Amazon to help accelerate my reading. I need a story to follow along with. These book indeed do not have any pinyin. Pinyin is fascinating to think about. Sometimes words are created from pinyin when you say them. Example: New York is Niǔyuē (纽约). Another is how in English we say "ha, ha". In pinyin it has been adopted exactly that way: Hāhā (哈哈).