Click for a clear view of one of the many Pinyin charts above online. LINK
Click on the sound files of any of the letters on the first line. b p m f d t n etc.
This is how many teachers in China and Taiwan teach
kids to read in Pinyin. Like kids who are taught English letters with
extraneous sounds the intelligent kids who cannot make sense of how ‘bo-ai’
combines to make bai; ‘mo- an’ combines to make man; ‘fo-ang’ combines to
become fang; ‘lur-ei’ combines to make lei, shut down/disengage from learning
to read.