Okay, /his/, why are the latin alphabet spellings of Chinese

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>>3230331
What do you expect from fucking commies.
Zhuyin is superior, hell even the Wade–Giles is superior to the Pinyin bullshit.

>>3230331
Romanisation cannot reproduce the actual pronunciation of Chinese with 100%, especially in a language such as English where there can sometimes be a great divide between the written and the spoken word.

>>3230423
Yet Chinese is taught in Pinyin everywhere except Taiwan.

Even my Chinese teacher in college, who is from Taiwan, use Pinyin.

>>3230331
Because the Latin alphabet was designed around (you guessed it) Latin, which has very different phonology than Chinese.

Imagine writing English in Arabic and how retarded it would look. Now you have an idea.