What's pinyin?

Pinyin is a way to represent Chinese characters and express the sounds in the Chinese language using the alphabet.

Pinyin may be the most widely-used system of writing Mandarin Chinese that makes use of the Latin alphabet. It is a great tool to assist you in learning the correct pronunciation of Mandarin words.

Firstly, you must find out how to read pinyin, as Mandarin contains some sounds which tend not to exist in English.

Look at the reference books, listen to the voices in Genuine Chinese and our tone and character games to hear how native speakers pronounce the sounds.

Don’t worry in the event you don’t get it right at first, learning pinyin is quite a long progress and needs a fair bit of practice.

Now you have started the first step, let's learning pinyin together. A nice Mandarin pronunciation will belong to you soon.