Anyone, who is planning to learn Chinese in China or overseas, should be very grateful for the current pinyin system that is in use.

但凡要在*或海外學(xué)中文的，都得感謝現(xiàn)行在用的拼音體系。

Romanisation of the Chinese language began back in the 1600s through the Jesuit missionaries but the works were solely for a western audience.

漢語(yǔ)羅馬化要追溯到17世紀(jì)的耶穌傳教士，但其著作僅僅面對(duì)西方受眾。

It is common to come across the Wade-Giles pinyin system in history text books or hearing people talk about China who haven’t learned modern pinyin.

經(jīng)常在歷史教科書(shū)看見(jiàn)威妥瑪式拼音法，未學(xué)過(guò)現(xiàn)代拼音者談?wù)?時(shí)也會(huì)論及。

Compared to the logic of the modern system of pinyin there are clear flaws. Mao Zedong was written as Mao Tse-tung. The ‘tung’ phonetic for 東 is not accurate standard pronunciation and so the Wade-Giles system would always be lacking.

較之現(xiàn)代拼音體系，威妥瑪式拼音法有明顯缺陷。Mao Zedong（毛澤東）寫(xiě)出來(lái)是Mao Tse-tung，而用tung表示“東”的發(fā)音并非準(zhǔn)確的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)發(fā)音。因而威妥瑪式拼音法總是有所欠缺。

Modern hanyu pinyin was a project pushed by the Communist Party in 1950. Led by Zhou Youguang, the team’s aim was to create an all-encompassing phonetic system without the inaccuracies of previous systems.

現(xiàn)代漢語(yǔ)拼音是共產(chǎn)黨1950年推進(jìn)的項(xiàng)目。 由周有光引領(lǐng)，團(tuán)隊(duì)旨在創(chuàng)造全面的拼音體系，剔除之前體系不準(zhǔn)確的標(biāo)音。

This seemingly exhaustive list provides the all the phonetic possibilities in the language. The tones are signifiedby markers, known as diacritics, above the key syllable of the final.

這一體系幾乎窮盡了中文里所有可能的語(yǔ)音。音調(diào)由標(biāo)記標(biāo)出來(lái)，即人們所知的變音符號(hào)，標(biāo)在韻母的關(guān)鍵音節(jié)上。

Pinyin can be important for Chinese adults as well as foreigners and schoolchildren as it reminds people of the standard pronunciation opposed to their local dialect.

拼音對(duì)于外國(guó)人和在校學(xué)生重要，對(duì)于*成年人一樣重要，因?yàn)槠匆籼嵝讶藗冏⒁庥袆e于其當(dāng)?shù)胤窖缘臉?biāo)準(zhǔn)的發(fā)音。

It’s possible, and realistic, that in the near future school children all over the world will be learning Chinese as part of their syllabus.

不久的將來(lái)，很有可能世界各地的在校學(xué)生會(huì)學(xué)習(xí)中文，漢語(yǔ)成為其課程大綱的一部分。