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Reply to your second part: That's a shock to me. Billions of Chinese people and millions of people learning Chinese are doing just fine. If anything, pinyin ma
by paradite 10y ago
Reply to your second part:
That's a shock to me. Billions of Chinese people and millions of people learning Chinese are doing just fine. If anything, pinyin makes the first few lessons easier.
Of course I am not suggesting that pinyin can be used to replace characters, but it is good for learning pronunciations and useful in typing.
Japanese is different in the sense that each character already carries its own pronunciation, so the use of romaji is discouraged. But for Chinese, the character rarely reveal its pronunciation so you need a good way of describing them.
As for Pleco, ironically I see pinyin being featured more prominently, as the only pronunciation in the list view: https://www.pleco.com/ https://www.pleco.com/
- krapp 10y ago>Japanese is different in the sense that each character already carries its own pronunciation, so the use of romaji is discouraged. I may be wrong but isn't that only the case with hiragana and katakana? Kanji in Japanese can have multiple readings with multiple pronunciations - which you just kind of have to know.