> That is a good point, but I'd like to ask out of curiosity, at what age > do children generally learn pinyin? (Assuming you speak Mandarin. If > not, replace pinyin with the name of whatever phonetic transliteration > is common in your region.) Granted, pinyin shoehorned into ASCII loses > its tone marks, but the result would still be more mnemonic than an > English word that the student has to learn. > Yes, we use Pinyin, and add a number to deal with tone marks, it is better than English words, but as a Chinese, reading pingyin is much slower than reading HanZi.
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