“Just give me the basics!” That’s what this Chinese pronunciation guide is all about. It’s all that you need to know Chinese pronunciation to get by. The 80% that’s important. To speak Mandarin, the first thing to learn is Chinese pronunciation of words using the system known as pinyin. Pinyin is the Romanized Chinese phonetic system and is the most effective aid to learning Mandarin today. (Romanized means using English alphabets.) Pinyin was invented in the 1950’s so that anyone, especially English speaking people, could learn Chinese pronunciation easily. Most of the letters in pinyin have the same sounds as letters of the alphabet

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