Pīnyīn Explorer

The rise of Pinyin is like a slow tide, catching the daydreamer unawares.

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@cfwang1337 @MT_6226 As a second language learner, I do ALL my reading in 100% pinyin, no hanzi (倪匡，亦舒，演讲文字稿, etc), I love it.
Btw, I showed in a study that homophony is not actually a problem for Hànyǔ Pīnyīn: https://t.co/7UFBR2a4Fx

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@s8mb Closing the blinds lowers UV exposure, which is higher at altitude, and relevant for frequent flyers or people concerned about photoaging/skin cancer risk.

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Today's handwriting exercise. It really gets better with practice. And deliberate font/letter choices. #pinyin

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@mssingnoah 😂 you can't do that in English either! Most words have dozens of phrases and definitions

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@3bongawa_books like, reading silently? without speaking the words?

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@donaldcclarke @kevincarrico I don't know about the legitimate history, but I use pinyin exclusively for all my Mandarin reading. Everything I read gets transcribed into fully orthographic pinyin. No hanzi. Correct spelling is crucial.

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@IamSriSudharsan Read in Chinese, but even beginner Mandarin learners can actually read every word

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Correct spelling makes writing legible. Hànyǔ Pīnyīn is no exception. #Pinyin

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@dickiebush How about writing by hand, but in Chinese, but with the alphabet?

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@junicipal As an L2 learner, you read REAL Chinese texts and books OUT LOUD, written in correctly spelled Pinyin, so your mouth and brain gets used to real sentences and vocabulary, not graded readers. You can learn and use Hanzi later, after you can read fluently.

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@natureeuniverse Morning!

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@tongqiankanshi I love pinyin for reading and studying Chinese 😇🙌

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Spent half the Sunday for a new header design, and the manifesto. 😅 Time to go for a walk and wait for readers to discover my page

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@hanjouteiooba if Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was alive today, he would write a book "How I became an amazing musician - AND YOU CAN TOO", and people would actually buy and believe it

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@10_X_eng idea: 8 years. working demo 6 months. final 90% 18 months. pinyinexplorer (dot) com

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@CEOLandshark like a dog?

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pinyin + typography, we haven’t even scratched the surface

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pinyin + typography, we haven’t even scratched the surface

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@harry_taussig @almostheir https://t.co/ckeHJbRbAJ Alfons - for self directed learners 😁🌿

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Update: in hindsight, it took me about 3 months to write out ca. 450 word maps. Then it took me another 4 months to distil 365 clean definitions, which became the core anchor words of Pinyin Explorer.

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The game is afoot! Will now work through the 600 most common monosyllabic words in Chinese Pinyin, and create my personal word maps for them. My app's prototype seems to be holding up well! Will know more in 2 months or so.