A Conversation for The Cultural Revolution
Pinyin
Tumsup Started conversation Sep 6, 2007
I used to have a whole course on cassette tapes. The included text was in some other system than Wade-Giles. It was invented by linguists at some American university on comission from the US state department in the 1930s.
The reason that I'm vague on the details is that I wasn't getting anywhere with it so I took a course at the local college. I showed the book to my teacher, he bristled at it and told me to throw it out. So I did.
If you want to learn Chinese, you have to learn the pinyin system if you want to get it right. 
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