Chinese Language (1) --Pinyin
Fri, 2010-04-09 09:22 �� angel_jiang
Chinese is not a phonetic language. The pronunciation is not related to the writing of Chinese words (characters). A special tool called Pinyin (pronouncing the sound) is created for people to learn Mandarin pronunciation. Pinyin is a way to transcribe Chinese characters so people can pronounce it. The writing of Pinyin is similar to English alphabet.
If you listen carefully, you will find Chinese is a very beautiful language as it has more musical sounds (vowels) than noise (consonants). Except for nasal sound like "n" and "m", all Chinese syllables ends with vowels. So we call them "Final Sounds". The consonants at the beginning of a syllable are called "Initial Sounds".
Chinese is a tonal language. Tones are the changes of the pitch in pronunciation of a syllable. There are 4 basic tones in Mandarin Chinese. Each Chinese word (character) carries a tone. Different tones carry different meanings.
Most of Mandarin sounds are easy to pronounce some sounds are difficult and requires more practice.
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Nín hǎo lǎoshī, wǒ shì lǎowō kěyǐ shuō zhōngguó yīdiǎn diǎn ^^
wow that fish in the picture is heeeeen daaaaa!
Another words difficult to make the difference for me, with the same pinyin but different pronunciation is 马, 吗, 妈妈 and 骂
I can´t say the second tone, I usually read it as a third tone;the worst is that I often don´t notice the difference.
Nihao Anne, you can find the difference between those tones here:
http://www.ninhao.com/learn-mandarin-chinese/blog/four-tones
Hope it helps.:)
nihao teacher ... i want 2 learn more chinese words but its hard for me to pronouced properly my tongue get twist ,, eheheh but im trying my best to inproved my prounciation,,, wish you can help me teacher ..... xiexie
Nihao! I understand your situation, to pronounced properly tongue, you need practice a lot, and also you can try our online tutor and let our teachers help your prounciation. Hope it helps.
Hello Angel. Nice to meet you agen. I am just thinking to start a new lesson or use pay pal and go ninhao. What I do ? "Money makes the world go round" here Finland too.
Ni hao, nice to meet you again. I am glad to hear that you want to start a new lesson. Hope your Chinese will improve fast through ninhao's effort.
it's so nice to meet you.
nihao
Aimy, nihao! Nice to meet you!
ninhao lao shi, wo shi tinn wo cong fei lu bin de ma ni la lai,wo shi lian hanyu, xi wang hui geng hao..( ",)
hi teacher nice too meet you
Nice to meet you too.:)
hello!
Nihao! Welcome to our website.
怎么没人看呢？辛苦的成果没人肯定
-Pendant l'été j'ai bien reussit à écrire une bonne partie des paroles(syllabes )chinois. L'accent reste encore un problème, mais je continuerai.!! Les leçons sont excellentes.!!!