It's my pleasure to do something helpful with your Chinese(Part 1)

Some of my blog friends are interested in learning Chinese, so I decide to write a series of articles about the language of Chinese. I'm not a teacher, so I'm not professional. Nonetheless, I'll still try my best to teach.

Chinese characters just like a picture to draw. To learn it well, you should learn how to speak them. So you must learn Pin Yin, or phonetic transcription to speak the characters. Pin Yin is a very very important tool for learning Chinese. Take me as an example. You know, there are many accents in English, and Chinese is without exception. And the accents of Chinese are even more complicated. Compared to mandarin, the Chinese of Hong Kong sounds really different, just like a foreign language. I can't say that accent well. And my hometown has its own accent, my parents speak mandarin with a heavy hometown accent, while my mandarin is so good that no one can tell whether I come from north or south. In addition, the Taiwanese just speak mandarin with only few words different.

Almost every Chinese learn mandarin with Pin Yin as a start. I did it, too. Having a good master of Pin Yin is the key to correct your speaking. Only read characters according to Pin Yin can I remove my hometown accent. The only reason why some Chinese can't speak mandarin is that they don't learn Pin Yin well, so is the case of my parents.

In a word, the better you master Pin Yin, the better you speak mandarin.