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Understanding Chinese Characters and Pinyin by Mahder Girmay Gebremicheal is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document provides an introduction to the Chinese language, including: - Chinese is a tonal language where pitch distinguishes words and is spoken by about one-fifth of the world. - It uses thousands of characters instead of an alphabet, with each character representing a word or part of a word. - Pinyin romanizes Chinese for pronunciation using an system of initials, finals, and tones to represent the approximately 1,600 syllables. - Learning Chinese offers benefits from its large population of speake
- Author
- Mahder Girmay Gebremicheal
- Language
- EN