{"id":634,"date":"2012-03-07T00:44:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T08:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/?p=634"},"modified":"2012-03-07T00:44:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T08:44:27","slug":"learn-pinyin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/learn-pinyin\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn Pinyin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E5%90%8C%E9%9F%B3%E5%AD%97\">\u540c\u97f3\u5b57<\/a> <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%EF%BC%88\">\uff08<\/a>homophone<a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%EF%BC%89\">\uff09<\/a> in Chinese, Pinyin is very useful to help you master more Chinese new words by yourself. You can even just use pinyin to chat in our popular Pinyin Chat Room.<\/p>\n<h2>Learn The Pinyin Basic Sounds<\/h2>\n<p>Now to begin with, you can spend about 6 minutes to get yourself familiar with all the Pinyin sounds. Don&#8217;t worry if you don&#8217;t understand all. You repeat the video until you feel comfortable:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b9Ayvjy-Dgs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nWe will continue with more lessons on Pinyin to help you really master it.<\/p>\n<p>Mastering Pinyin would be just like giving a tiger two wings to fly and that can help you master Chinese better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E5%90%8C%E9%9F%B3%E5%AD%97\">\u540c\u97f3\u5b57<\/a> <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%EF%BC%88\">\uff08<\/a>homophone<a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%EF%BC%89\">\uff09<\/a> in Chinese, Pinyin is very useful to help you master more Chinese new words by yourself. You can even just use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}