Learning Chinese Pinyin Finals

Hanyu Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Mandarin Chinese sounds into the Roman alphabet. Pinyin is considered useful for teaching Mandarin Chinese, transcribing names and places into the roman alphabet, as well as inputting Chinese characters into computers.

Here's a more complete introduction to Pinyin @ wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin

Another useful online resource site of learning more about Pinyin: https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-pinyin-chart.php

At our club meetings, we have been studying six basic, important "finals" in the past one month or two. They were: a, o, e, i, u, ü

There are a total of nearly 23 initials and 24 finals in Hanyu Pinyin system. We are taking baby steps by learning one at a time and trying our best to get them pronounced right! Some of them will be easy since we have the same or similar sound in English already; others may be more difficult and require much more practice. All club members are doing amazingly well and working hard in our Pinyin units. Way to go! Keep up your good work, kiddos!