Well, you're not alone. It's a challenge many of us face, and it stems from the way Chinese names are romanized using Pinyin, the standardized system for Mandarin pronunciation. The ...

Many claim that the surfeit of letters such as Q, X and Z makes it difficult to read Chinese names rendered in pinyin, but ...

Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so the Chinese invented pinyin to help their learners. They took the letters of the Roman alphabet, the same we use for ...