the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

The inventor of the pin yin system died recently, this is a reminder that it was a fairly recent innovation. As a non speaker with a vocabulary of a few dozen words but an awareness of the structure of Mandarin I am interested in what Mandarin speakers have to say about the following blog. Personally I found the baw paw maw fa system helpful in pronunciation[not mentioned here] , it seems a trifle dismissive of the western romanisations

Ken, would love to comment, but there's no link in your post!

yes it would be nice to have a link

Regarding the two systems I've actually studied both
due to my focus on IMA/CMA never really put in the time to master much of it other
then the most basic things needed in living in China or Taiwan.

I would look at the focus and aim of each...The Bopomofo system seems to be based partially on teaching the
strokes used in writing traditional Chinese.

The Pinyin, used in mainland China based on romanization model
making it more english friendly for us non native speakers. Allowing native speakers to get used to seeing another style/type of
writing maybe helping them in learning English.

The mainland using simplified Chinese may not feel a need to create what amounts
to another system teaching writing strokes..

Interesting in reading you found the bopomofo easier then the pinyin, I found the opposite.

Just my 2 rmb, NT

Mandarin Chinese (language): Which is the better Romanization ...
https://www.quora.com/Mandarin-Chinese- ... ization-...
The premise of your question is incorrect. Pinyin is both more recent and better than either of ... Startups in China · Mandarin ... Why does Taiwan cling to the Wade-Giles romanization system when Pinyin is far superior? Where can I find a ...

"Page Not Found
We searched everywhere but couldn't find the page you were looking for."

your link may have problems.

regarding my premise, just something I noted...
others "native" speakers as you asked may be able to
share deeper thoughts.

windwalker wrote:"Page Not Found
We searched everywhere but couldn't find the page you were looking for."

your link may have problems.

regarding my premise, just something I noted...
others "native" speakers as you asked may be able to
share deeper thoughts.

This link works:
https://www.quora.com/Mandarin-Chinese- ... Wade-Giles

Not a Mandarin speaker. However, I am learning Cantonese from this website with a lot of good material in pinyin. They have Mandarin resources as well: https://www.innovativelanguage.com/lear ... ine-course

You can download a lot of free material with their trial free account.

"why...?"

there are 2 kinds of ppl:
one who does things and the other that try to LOOK like they're doing something