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Pinyin is the romanization method for Mandarin (aka Putonghua). From your description it sounds like your friend being more comfortable in Cantonese than Mandar
by hnfong 5y ago
Pinyin is the romanization method for Mandarin (aka Putonghua). From your description it sounds like your friend being more comfortable in Cantonese than Mandarin. (Is there really a difference between not fully understanding pinyin and not distinguishing the different sounds?) Anyway these days Cantonese input methods are getting better (or so I heard, my fingers have muscle memory of Changjie by now). See https://jyutping.org/en/keyboard/ https://jyutping.org/en/keyboard/
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> (Is there really a difference between not fully understanding pinyin and not distinguishing the different sounds?) Yes. They aren't even related ideas. You can easily understand that a distinction exists despite the fact that you, personally, can't hear it. Is there a distinction between not understanding the RGB model and being colorblind? > From your description it sounds like your friend being more comfortable in Cantonese than Mandarin. She was fully fluent in Mandarin. Just Cantonese-accented Mandarin. Mandarin is the language of instruction everywhere in China; it isn't possible not to speak it.