Have you ever wondered why China and Taiwan use two different forms of Mandarin? What is the difference between Pinyin and Zhuyin?. Using the Windows 10 MS Bopomofo or MS Pinyin keyboards for Hanyu Pinyin input of Traditional Chinese. When you’re learning Chinese in school or university, you will most likely first learn some form of Pinyin for a period of time before progressing.
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Anyone that already knows some Chinese but plans to move to Taiwan for more than a month or two should learn zhuyin.
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I have never been swayed by the phonics argument. China has developed bopomoco significant movie industry over the last decade, and has internally a large music industry — but does anyone other than Chinese living outside of China actually know this? The Commission on the Unification of Pronunciationled by Bbopomofo Zhihui from tocreated a system called Zhuyin Zimu[5] which was based on Zhang Binglin ‘s shorthand. History of the alphabet Egyptian hieroglyphs 32 c.
Understanding Pinyin and Zhuyin.
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Of course not ALL of it requires re-mapping and you are absolutely right about the sounds bopomfo do change in Taiwan. October 16, at 9: It is also one of the few input methods that can be used for inputting Chinese characters on certain cell phones.
Again, I have no hack to get around this “convenient” feature, but it may be worth searching for one. Admittedly, your bopomoo is shifted a bit closer to the character, but I guess that most people will still just read the phonetics and not the character itself.
When I began learning Japanese I had to learn hirigana and katagana, which are the phonetic systems for Japanese.
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If you do not see that button, right-click on the taskbar or on a touch screen, long-press and releaseand in the menu that pops up, select “Show touch keyboard button”: In other projects Wikimedia Commons.
Of course, I knew Zhuyin well, but with little knowledge about Pinyin. There are limitations to using pinnyin mode, some permanent and some that may be improved in future updates: I got a lot out of kids books. Zhuyin is and was not meant to always accompany text. Because zhuyi symbols are used for elementary books, and those books have text arranged vertically, the fonts with integrated zhuyi usually comes with the symbols on the right.
In elementary school, particularly in the lower years, Chinese characters in textbooks are often annotated with Zhuyin as ruby characters as an aid to learning.
October 29, at pinyib Zhuyin remains the predominant phonetic system in teaching reading and writing in elementary school in Taiwan. Why does China use Pinyin and not Zhuyin? Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.
But I think that you are right, after you have learned Chinese for some certain amount of time, the Pinyin or Zhuyin should only be used for reference.
As soon as you give a learner a romanisation then their pronunciation goes a bit array because they are trying to read the romanisation with interferrence from using the roman alphabet for another language.
Both systems have their merits. Bopomlfo choice should be based not only on your preference for or annoyance with one or the boponofo, but also with attention to what encoding standard is being used by the people you communicate or exchange documents with most. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
While learning a phonetic alphabet is an essential part of learning Chinese, you do have a choice about which phonetic alphabet you learn, and the choice you make will affect your pronunciation, reading ability, and how fast you learn.
Ciaocibai, when I started learning Chinese here in Taiwan, the teacher taught us Zhuyin, we spent around two weeks on learning it, then gradually crossed over to reading Zhuyin and Chinese together. Traditional Characters Other pages: If it gets people reading books books from Taiwan, though, that would be great!
However, I find it quite hard to imagine that many foreign learners would appreciate zhuyin as bopomofk do with pinyin.
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BCE Libyco-Berber 3 c. BoPoMoFo is difficult at first, and therefore it weeds out the lazier folk who perhaps were not quite as interested in the language as they thought. If you do not see that button, right-click on the taskbar or on a touch screen, long-press and releaseand in the menu that pops up, select “Show touch keyboard button”:.
Zhuyin, when used in conjunction with Chinese characters, are typically placed to the right of the Chinese character vertically or to the top of the Chinese character in a horizontal print see Ruby character. March 22, at Now in the settings panel for Microsoft Pinyin, change the characters set menu to Traditional Chinese. To enable the full keyboard, press the language key at the lower right, circled here: You may find this or another button greyed out, because Windows 10 tries to give you only options the developers think are best for your PC.
Apart from providing a new system of pronunciation that enables you to complete remove yourself from any influence of English pronunciation, Zhuyin also has great benefits when reading Chinese.
If you’re using the classic desktop language bar on the taskbar which I explain how to set up on the advanced features page: October 27, at October Learn how and when to remove this template message. But you may have some other use for it, especially in other languages.