Ok so I stumbled across this romanization scheme - Gwoyeu Romatzyh...

Here's what I thought...While it seems like a very good idea, the spelling rules just seemed like they would take too long sit down and try and figure out / learn...however the idea of incorporating the tone into the spelling did seem like a very good idea and in about 5 minutes I came up with, what I think, is a much easier system.

It seems everyone knows Pinyin...right? okay, why not make use of that fact and just slightly alter it instead? that was my idea. So here's what I came up with...it's completely regular and is easily convertable from/to pinyin...


1st tone
*identical to pinyin (the only exception is the "