Mastering Pinyin in 3 Days +2CDs 漢語拼音3日通

Learning"Hanyu Pinyin" has become a question of "how?" instead of "Why?" ever since the international Organization for Standardization(ISO) officially adopted this spelling system as the standard form for Romanization for modern Chinese in 1982. Hanyu Pinyin, or Just Pinyin, uses 25 English letters (without "v") to represent about 400 standard Mandarin sounds (not including tones). It combines 21 consonants and 35 vowels to make all of these sounds. Therefore, when you have learned all 56 phonetic symbols and the way to pronounce the compounds, you can pretty much say all the Chinese words. This book is meant to give you the whole picture of the pinyin system in a short period of time. There are a total of 13 small lessons; each introduces 4.3 symbols on average. A great majority of these symbols are presented with a similar sounding American English word to give you an easy start. In each lesson, you will only find symbols which have been previously introduced. Through a compo