Basic Chinese for Beginners: Pin Yin

        If you’re learning Chinese, it’s essential to have a firm grasp of the basics, and pinyin is a great place to start. Pinyin is the phonetic system developed to present Chinese in western alphabetical characters.

What is pinyin and why should I learn it?

You can think of pinyin as being a bridge between western alphabetical languages, like English, and Mandarin Chinese. That’s because each and every Chinese word can be represented both as a character (a Chinese ideogram), or as pinyin. Pinyin tells you exactly how to pronounce the word – both the vowels and consonants, as well as those all-important tones. Pinyin is EVERYWHERE in China, and it’s the basis of pretty much any Chinese-based app or dictionary.

In short, learning pinyin is one of the best ways to accelerate your progress in Chinese – and even better, it’s actually pretty easy!

In this course, you will learn Pinyin with clear and detailed way which shows you the English phonics, and the tone position pictures in order to make you fully understand the right way for the pronunciation. This course is composed by 16 vidieos, besides that, the distinction and spelling exercise will help you further enforce what you’ve learned for each course.