Why Use English Phonics to Learn Mandarin?
Simply because it’s the fastest and most easy way! Phonics is the branch of language study that deals with specific speech sounds, their production and combination, and their written symbols, or phonograms, (what we commonly refer to as letters). Linguists classify these sounds into a number of abstract categories called phonics, which are a family of closely related speech sounds regarded as a single sound and represented in phonetic transcription with specific, learned symbols (again, referring to letters). An example would be the family sounds of “r” in bring, red and round. Any differences between such sounds are due to the modifying influence of the adjacent sounds. Phonemes are the building blocks of early reading. As children, we were all taught how to decode written language – breaking them into parts that make each sound. There’s an entire study of this broad subject, and plenty of written by men and women far more knowledgeable on the subject than myself, the likes of Priscil
