Mandarin characters don’t tell you how to pronounce a word. They are more like pictures that represent an object or an idea. Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so ...

Journal of Behavioral Education, Vol. 12, No. 3 (September 2003), pp. 207-223 (17 pages) This study examined the roles of pinyin and English words as stimulus prompts in the learning of Chinese ...