WHAT DOES CHINESE SOUND LIKE TO A NON-NATIVE SPEAKER?
Today I'm gonna try and teach you how to understand and interpret some basic phonics in Chinese. This isn’t a strict Mandarin...
拼音练习二：千字文（部分）
天地玄黄 (tiān dì xuán huáng)，宇宙洪荒 (yǔ zhòu hóng huāng)。 日月盈昃 (rì yuè yíng zè)，辰宿列张 (chén xiù liè zhāng)。 寒来暑往 (hán lái shǔ wǎng)，秋收冬藏 (qiū...
拼音练习一：三字经（部分）
rén zhī chū xìng běn shàn xìng xiāng jìn xí xiāng yuǎn 人之初 性本善 性相近 习相远 gǒu bú jiào xìng nǎi qiān jiào zhī dào guì yǐ...
Lesson 10 Chinese Syllables
Spelling Rules Rules of Syllable Separation As mentioned in Lesson 1, Chinese syllables usually consist of initial consonants and vowels....
Lesson 9 Back Nasal Simple or Compound Vowels: ɑng,eng,ing,ong,iɑng,uɑng,iong,ueng
Before learning these vowels, we need to learn the back nasal “ng”. ng “ng” is a back nasal. To produce this sound, raise the root of...
Lesson 8 Front Nasal Simple or Compound Vowels:
Before learning these vowels, let us first review how the nasal sound “n” is made. n (+e) Front nasal. The major articulators involved...
Lesson 7 Compound Vowels : iɑo, iou(iu), uɑi, uei(ui)
iɑo Produced by pronouncing the Chinese simple vowel “i” first, followed by the compound “ɑo”. iou(iu) Written as “iu” after an initial...
Lesson 6 Compound Vowels : ɑi, ei, ɑo, ou, iɑ, ie, uɑ, uo, üe
In the subsequent lessons, we just use “compound” for short. ɑi Falling compound. “Falling” means that the first sound of the compound...
Lesson 5 Tones
In this lesson we will study the four basic tones and the neutral (zero) tone in standard Chinese. Different from English, Chinese is a...
Lesson 4 Initial Consonants : z, c, s, zh, ch, sh, r
In this lesson, we’ll learn another 7 initial consonants. The vowel “i” added to these initial consonants is not the same as “i”. The...
