Tag: pinyin
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Hanyu Pinyin spotted in the wild!
I happened across a website called Model Mayhem. It didn’t really appear that interesting to me, but just for fun I decided to find out if there were any models listed from Taiwan. To my surprise, the search form has correct Hanyu pinyin with tone marks! It’s great to see someone using correct Hanyu pinyin…
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Engrish Menu
Often, restaurants will have English menus for foreigners. Most of the time they are copies of the Chinese menus. Often they are simply lists. However, never before have I seen such a detailed menu as this:
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More Engrish pictures
I’ve had these pictures on my phone for a while and just lately got around to tagging and cataloging them. About time, I guess. First up is courtesy of Bank of Taiwan, one of the oldest banking institutions on the island, with branches pretty much everywhere. I saw this upstairs when I was sending money…
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Learning Chinese
Chinese is a very difficult language for most to learn. Among the factors include certain sounds which are foreign to speakers of English and most European languages and the writing system, in which complex strokes are used to create characters. These characters must simply be memorized. No ifs, ands, or buts about it and no…
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English speakers have it easy…
At least as far as dictionaries are concerned. We can organize all the words alphabetically and it’s quite simple to look up the appropriate letter, narrow it down by the 2nd and 3rd letters and eventually arrive at the word you are looking for, complete with phonetic pronunciation guide, definition, etc. It’s not quite so…