Mandarin characters don’t tell you how to pronounce a word. They are more like pictures that represent an object or an idea. Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so ...

Journal of Behavioral Education, Vol. 12, No. 3 (September 2003), pp. 207-223 (17 pages) This study examined the roles of pinyin and English words as stimulus prompts in the learning of Chinese ...

Zhou Youguang was born in 1906 during the Qing Dynasty Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang, who created the writing system that turns Chinese characters into words using letters from the Roman alphabet, ...