The Five Senses in Hanyu

Hanyu Pinyin was officially developed by China. It is the most popular phonetic system for the official spoken language of Hanyu.

According to The China Post, despite decades of political confrontation between China and Taiwan, the Taiwan Ministry of Education has now declared that beginning 1st of January 2009, Hanyu Pinyin will be used as the official romanization standard in Taiwan. In the long term, we can anticipate an unification of teaching standard for Hanyu globally.

Hanyu Pinyin is conveyed in Roman alphabets. English speakers can make the first step into Hanyu learning by mastering this phonetic system, which ensures good pronunciation of the spoken language and enables computer input of the written language, the Chinese characters (Hanzi).

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