Original sentence: For example, the aspiration distinction between b, d, g and p, t, k is similar to English, but not to French.From s, z, c come the digraphs sh, zh, ch; although this introduces the novel combination zh, it is internally consistent in how the two series are related, and represents the fact that many Chinese pronounce sh, zh, ch as s, z, c.In the x, j, q series, x rather resembles its pronunciation in Catalan, though q is more novel.The correspondance between letter and sound does not follow any single other language, but do not depart any more from the norms of the Latin alphabet than many European languages.Z and c also have that distinction, but their [ts] pronunciations follow languages such as German, Italian, and Polish which do not
Edited sentence: For example, the sounds indicated in pinyin by b and g correspond more closely to the sounds indicated by p and k in some Western uses of the Latin script, e.However, this very disregard for conventional pronunciations of the letters has enabled pinyin to represent Chinese sounds with economy and internal consistency.Other letters, like j, q, x or zh, indicate sounds that do not correspond to any exact sound in English.Some of the transcriptions in pinyin, such as the ian ending, do not correspond to English pronunciations, either.The way these letters represent sounds in Standard Mandarin does not correspond to any other one particular language that uses the Roman alphabet.This means that people who have not studied Chinese, or who have studied Chinese but not the pinyin system, are likely to severely mispronounce some words if they attempt to pronounce pinyin according to their own language spellings