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One possible solution would be to find a dictionary that has either pinyin or zhuyin fuhao to guide pronunciation. I believe zhongwen.com provides this.
by misterbwong 16y ago
One possible solution would be to find a dictionary that has either pinyin or zhuyin fuhao to guide pronunciation. I believe zhongwen.com provides this.
- CWuestefeld 16y agoIn this case pinyin would have worked, since (afaik) it's a representation of Mandarin pronunciation, which happens to be the language they were speaking at the time. However, (1) we don't have such a dictionary, and I think demanding such a specialized dictionary violates the argument in the OP; and (2) if they'd been speaking Shanghainese, which is her other Chinese tongue, or another dialect, pinyin wouldn't have helped. I'm not familiar with zhuyin, but given what I understand about the problem, I imagine the same weakness would apply.