Pinyin & TonesLesson 1⏱ 8 min
How Chinese Works: Characters, Syllables and Pinyin
What you're actually learning: one spoken language (Mandarin), written in characters, with pinyin as the pronunciation guide.
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Mandarin: one character, one syllable
"Chinese" here means Mandarin (普通话, pǔtōnghuà, "the common speech"), the national standard of mainland China and Taiwan and the most widely spoken first language on Earth.
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