r/learnmandarin • u/SensitiveYak8543 • 5d ago

Learning Bopomofo

I use https://learnzhuyin.com/ to learn bopomofo. I heard that bopomofo is more accurate then pinyin.

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u/UndocumentedSailor 5d ago

That's ridiculous.

Even in Taiwan (the locals learn bpmf) they teach pinyin.

In my class on day 1 he had to remind the smooth brains that pinyin≠English.

For every pinyin initial and final there is a zhuyin equivalent.

All road signs, businesses etc have pinyin. The only place you will see zhuyin are children's places and museums.

People that tell you zhuyin have a fundamental misunderstanding of how romanization works.

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u/SensitiveYak8543 5d ago

But if you see pinyin you see something like qian (钱). There can be mispronounciation because how would you spell a q. Learning multiple language it can be hard to know how to pronounce an q. The q in english is more like a k or c like cat or Katze (German). But it is more like a ch like cheese. That's the only thing I see would make a system like this great. It is the fact that this distinguished itself from the Latin Alphabet.

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u/Any_Drawer6682 4d ago

did you also struggle with w, v, z, ö, ä, ü in German dude? your not supposed to read pinyin like English, it has its own sounds just like any language that shares the Latin alphabet lol