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Correcting news anchors’ pronunciation

Stumbled across this website with some hilarious videos about Mandarin. Especially check out the one about the Pinyin Pirate. They also give a snarky but accurate presentation about how to pronounce the name of our fair city. All campy jokes aside, the videos are actually useful for learning Mandarin. They’re hosted by real university Mandarin [...]

Chinese Pronunciation: Vowel Combinations

Last time we looked at pronunciation of vowels. This time we will look at how to pronounce a combination of consonants and vowels. In Chinese pronunciation, basic vowels can form vowel combinations with each other or with a nasal consonant. Here are there pronunciations: ai like eye an sounds like “ah” with an emphatic “n” [...]

Chinese Pronunciation: Vowels

Last session we looked at the pronunciation of consonants. This session pronunciation of vowels will be covered. There are 6 simple vowels. They are: a, o, e, i, u, ü. Here are their pronunciations: a as in mama o as in drop e as in earn I as in sit U as in look ü [...]

Chinese Pronunciation: Consonants

Last session we covered tones. This lesson we will look at pronunciation of consonants. The following session we will look at pronunciation of vowels, and pronunciation of consonants and vowels combined. There are 24 consonants in pinyin which are pronounced a lot like in English: b, p, m, f, d, t, n, l, g, k, [...]

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