Chinese languages

I understood from my girlfriend that Chinese have their own style of "pinyin" meant to expres the pronnunciation of characters. But this method consists of characters itself. Is that true?

Kind of.

Where is your girlfriend from? (I'm guessing Taiwan?)

Roman-letter pinyin is pretty much the standard for schools outside of China, and it is the system used for romanisation within China for learning materials and such.

Taiwanese students I believe are taught a system of phoneticization which has sounds equivalent to those of pinyin syllables, but use a particular series of simple characters.

Dear Michalis,

Go to the following discussion threads to find out more about the zhuyin (bo po mo fo) method for representing the sounds of Mandarin syllables:

http://www.chinalanguage.com/forum/read ... =246&t=217

http://www.chinalanguage.com/forum/read ... 851&t=5851

Kobo-Daishi, PLLA.

P.S. I used the pseudonym of Nancy (my boss) to answer a guy from Estonia (I guess).

Taiwanese students are taught a particular system.
If you want a copy of that system, download here.

http://www.unicode.org/charts/

select Bopomofo(U3100.pdf)