Canotonese spoken person trying to learn to speak Mandarin and Pinyin Hello All, Thanks for the tips. I have a special need and hope you can help. I am already very familiar with most of the Chinese characters. I lived in Hong Kong for 16 years. However, I do not pinyin. Coming from Hong Kong, we know Cantonese and know how to pronounce in Cantonese tone. The challenge I have is, I would look at the Chinese characters and then automatically try to use the Cantonese tone to pronounce it as Mandarin sound. My current goal now is to 1) learn pinyin (so I can type faster, I currently write stroke on computers and phones) and 2) speak better and more accurate Mandarin. Are there any learning resource that you would recommend someone like myself? Are there any learning approach that you would recommend? For ex., I am currently reading a document that has the most common 3500 Chinese words with Pinyin and trying to memorize it. I have found it very useful. Thanks you. Yu