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大毛猴子
Date : 2008-09-20 / 04:08AM
I am always confused as to why people who are learning the language write “pinyin” with no tone markers. Pinyin was not designed to be used as a written language but to standardize phonetics for characters. The problem is, the larger your vocabulary, the more difficult it is to translate “pinyin”. Pinyin without tone marks is not pinyin.
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| | Mari yahoo.com
2008-09-20 / 06:01AM | | perhaps it is because some computers can’t display/mark the characters? I dunno.
take it easy, because chinese tones are pretty difficult, specially to beginners, so people tend to move on without it… :x scratches head | |
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| | Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com
2008-09-20 / 06:23PM | | I agree with Mari. In fact as for all the written materials, you can only see the characters. To understand Chinese in a deep level, you must study characters
Benny
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| | da mao houzi yahoo.com
2008-09-26 / 07:02AM | | there are many free utilities to add pinyin to text, it is easy to do with no utility if you are willing to add 2000 pinyin to your Word dictionary. I have written a macro if anyone is interested, you just type the word plus the tone number an it auto corrects. | |
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| | damaohouzi yahoo.com
2008-09-27 / 09:51PM | | All computers can display the tone diacratics. goto control panel, egional languages and turn on asian languages. | |
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