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Chinese Alphabets
Nowadays, when we talk about Chinese alphabets, we mean the official Chinese romanization system Pinyin or Hanyu Pinyin 汉语拼音。 In history, people have used four major kinds of Chinese alphabetic transcription Yale romanization of Mandarin Wade-Giles Romanization of Chinese in Taiwan – 通用拼音 ( They tried to be different from Hanyu Pinyin used in Mainland…
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Chinese Input
Our online Chinese input is very popular in Google search. A big thanks for our fans and their referrals. Actually if you do need a better Chinese input online tool, you may use Google Translate. You may type simplified or traditional Chinese in Pinyin, Wubi, Zhuyin without installing any software on your computer. Are you…
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Why do you need to learn Pinyin?
Although learning Chinese characters is important and helpful for your Chinese study, you need to master the tool called Pinpin. Why do you need to learn Pinyin? Why Pinyin is important? \Here’s a good video by Emma explaining why Pinyin is important and helpful for Chinese learners. Mind you, you should never only rely on…
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Happy Father’s Day
Before we review how to say “Happy Father’s Day” in Cantonese and Mandarin, let look at the video How to Say Have a nice Weekend in Japanese Well, I’m still learning Japanese, which means I’m still a student! Now the Father’s Day stuff: Happy Father’s Day in Cantonese Heres the Jyutping for the Chinese characters:…
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Learn Pinyin
Pinyin is the official pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese or Putonghua (which is pinyin itself, meaning common speech). Although we should never use Pinyin only to learn Mandarin because there are two many 同音字 （homophone） in Chinese, Pinyin is very useful to help you master more Chinese new words by yourself. You can even just use…
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Chinese Flash Cards With Anki
As we mentioned earlier, Anki is a great tool to create Chinese Flash Cards Here’s another example using Anki. The deck of these Chinese flash cards was generated with the Anki Pinyin Toolkit and a word list from another open source Java program: Flashcard for Chinese Characters. The pinyin, English definitions and sounds were all…
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Chinese Chat Room Registration
If you Google for Chinese chat or Pinyin Chat room, we are on the top page in the search result. We have one of the most popular Chinese chat rooms. In order to provide better chatting environment by reducing spammers, we need to require an access code soon. Now you can easily get an access…
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“Merry Christmas” In Mandarin and Cantonese
How to say “Merry Christmas” in Mandarin & Cantonese? 聖誕快樂 （圣诞快乐) Mandarin:sheng4 dan4 kuai4 le4 (all 4th tones) Cantonese: sing3 daan3 faai3 lok6 (all 3rd tone but the last one 6th tone)
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Learn Pinyin Now: Pinyin quick lesson
Pinyin or Hanyu Pinyin is the official Chinese romanized phonetic/pronunciation system. It’s been around for over 50 years and has been helping Chinese learners a lot. More Info Here How do you type the Pinyin tone marks with your keyboard? It’s pretty tough without some tools. You can do it easily with This One (Try…