>The trouble is that they use phonetics for the English
>transliterations that in many cases bear only an approximate
>relationship to what I expect them to sound like.

Hah, I can relate to what you are saying. We have a Chinese student staying 
with us, and attempting to understand his English does get challenging at 
times. We haven't quite got to the stage of writing things down, but 
sometimes it gets close. ;)

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