![]() The table below shows five Chinese words in different Romanization systems: ![]() Listen to the Chinese audio in the left column and then look at how the various romanization systems render the words in Latin letters. A selection of these systems are included in the table below. This romanization system allowed speakers of Portuguese to sound out Chinese characters in an alphabet that was intelligible to them.ĭuring the past hundred years or so, both western and Chinese scholars have invented many systems for romanizing Chinese. The Jesuit scholar Matteo Ricci, for example, developed a system of romanization for Chinese during the sixteenth century, and used it to create a Chinese-Portuguese dictionary. Western scholars visiting China started experimenting early on with romanization, that is with a system for conveying Chinese sounds through the Latin alphabet that English and most European languages use. Chinese is written in characters, so there is no easy way for learners to figure out how to pronounce a character just by looking at it. ![]() We then learn how to use letters to spell words and then learn a few spelling rules (and the exceptions to those rules). You may take it for granted that letters represent sounds and can be used to form words that can be “sounded out.” In elementary school, we learn the 26 letters of the alphabet and practice associating those letters with specific sounds.
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