pinyin is not nearly as good as zhuyin in regards to phonetic representation.
as one example, some words like pinyin's /zhun/ look like they should have one syllable, but there's actually two, as far as i can tell. or at the least, the schwa is definitely missing from the pinyin representation, as in, it's not /zhu@n/, where @ is the schwa.
pinyin is rife with oversights like this, that a learner has no idea about, and indeed instructional guides don't even mention much of the time.
if you're serious about learning chinese, don't use pinyin unless you want to spend extra time undoing the damage done by doing so.
as one example, some words like pinyin's /zhun/ look like they should have one syllable, but there's actually two, as far as i can tell. or at the least, the schwa is definitely missing from the pinyin representation, as in, it's not /zhu@n/, where @ is the schwa.
pinyin is rife with oversights like this, that a learner has no idea about, and indeed instructional guides don't even mention much of the time.
if you're serious about learning chinese, don't use pinyin unless you want to spend extra time undoing the damage done by doing so.