

The standard way that is currently used to serve this purpose is the “pinyin”, a system designed by Chinese native speakers that allow English speakers to recognize and be familiar with the sounds used in the Chinese language. That’s why different systems have been created to represent the Chinese pronunciation of characters using the Latin alphabet system. Since Chinese characters, unlike most languages, are ideographic, the pronunciation of Chinese words can’t generally be derived from the characters themselves. Needless to say, Chinese pronunciation is completely different from English, therefore, how can an English speaker pronounce Chinese characters?
