I asked the above-captioned question on Quora.
Paul Denlinger, who has been speaking, reading, and writing Chinese since 1958 with an
M.A. in Linguistics (Uni Master's), University of St Andrews Graduated 1980 said:
‘I have no idea.’
A Chinese woman, on the other hand, answered differently. Before reading extracts of my discussion with the Chinese woman read the following Facebook post by Benedict Morais which is relevant.
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.
The video below was what started me on my journey to find out if there were other teachers teaching Pinyin the way this teacher, Melody JY Lyu @Mandarin Melon is teaching. LINK
Since then, I found several other teachers on Face Book and YouTube teaching pinyin this way. This is detrimental to kids learning Pinyin.
This is similar to what I had discovered and written in my book Shut Down Kids. The Chinese teachers and politicians ought to get a copy of this book.
My question to AI:
You said (referring to what AI said in the pervious episode): 'many Taiwanese students are able to overcome these challenges and develop strong English literacy skills through effective teaching methods and dedicated practice.' Do you have any idea who are those who find it difficult to overcome the challenges? I am asking this question based on my research. I discovered that many intelligent kids shut down/disengage from learning to read in English due to confusion. Could this apply to Taiwanese kids as well?
Answer from AI:
