well,does it?
2006-08-19 00:28:45 · 6 answers · asked by knowledge2everything 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I know pinyin. I have been studing Chinese (Mandarin) for four and a half years. Almost anyone studing Mandarin will know pinyin. It is also the accepted way to write names from Mainland China in western Newspapers and such.
2006-08-19 01:57:47 · answer #1 · answered by mike i 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only westerners who are serious about learning Chinese would learn 'pinyin', which is what IPA is to foreign languages like English and French.
2006-08-20 23:34:49 · answer #2 · answered by Dinner 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was over in China for 6 months and I can say that the mandarin I heard sounded nothing like the way the pinyin was written so generally I would guess no.
2006-08-19 07:32:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Pinyin" is a simplified way to write Chinese using the western alphabet.
Most westerners who start learning Chinese are familiar with it, because it is one of the first things you learn, long before you start to do characters.
2006-08-20 15:07:53 · answer #4 · answered by Hi y´all ! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope i have lived in canada for 10years and i only know 1 person that know it
2006-08-19 12:44:23 · answer #5 · answered by LazyForLife 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe they know and maybe they don't know.... Or maybe of them know...
2006-08-19 07:35:04 · answer #6 · answered by Mary Eda 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋