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| Silvance5 Groupie United States Joined 5500 days ago 86 posts - 118 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, French | Message 1 of 5 11 November 2009 at 8:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm starting from scratch with Chinese and I'm just curious whether it would be more effective to learn using Hanyu pinyu first and go back and learn the Mandarin after I'm comfortable with the language, or should I start learning Mandarin from the get-go?
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| minus273 Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5771 days ago 288 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Ancient Greek, Tibetan | Message 2 of 5 11 November 2009 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hanyu Pinyin is the major romanization of Standard Mandarin, a Chinese language.
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| Silvance5 Groupie United States Joined 5500 days ago 86 posts - 118 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, French | Message 3 of 5 11 November 2009 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
Well, yeah. That's what I'm asking. Should I learn Chinese through Hanyu Pinyin or Mandarin? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| minus273 Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5771 days ago 288 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Ancient Greek, Tibetan | Message 4 of 5 12 November 2009 at 12:28am | IP Logged | |||||
You would be learning Mandarin, as is constrasted to Cantonese, Taiwanese or Classical Chinese. A romanization is another way to write a language. It stays the same language. Are you asking if you should learn it through Hanyu Pinyin or through Chinese characters? If so, both. You should definitely know Hanyu Pinyin, and you'd better know the characters. Anyway, they don't conflict with each other. Edited by minus273 on 12 November 2009 at 12:29am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6442 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 5 12 November 2009 at 4:27am | IP Logged | |||||
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Without learning Pinyin, you'd have no way of recording the Chinese sounds. You need to study it from the beginning. It also gives you a good idea of Chinese phonology and tones system. The characters are the written language. If you want to be fluent in both spoken and written languages, you have to learn both of them obviously.
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