How to read: er
When pronouncing "er", the tongue is in the middle. Pronounce "e" and roll up your tongue tip toward the hard palate. It is a Mandarin 'e' with the tongue curled back.
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Types of Tone Mistakes
1、Mistakes of Control When you first start studying Chinese, you have no idea at all how to properly make the tones. Even if you can hear a difference, you can’t do it yourself. Or maybe you can hear and repeat it immediately after, but then quickly forget how to do it. This is all part of the process of learning tones.
The Prequel To Pinyin
It happens to all language learners, even the best of us. It’s your first day of class, and you’re silently panicking, watching in fear as your professor’s chalk dances across the board with lightning speed, producing the swirls and dots of Chinese characters. With each new slash, your heart sinks a little lower. How will you ever memorize and pronounce all several thousands of these?
8 Words for Popular in Mandarin
I’ve often pondered about how many words really exist in Mandarin for “popular” and so I’ve done my research and come up with what seems to be a pretty definitive list. For the purposes of this post, there is a distinction made between “popular” (known by many people) and universal (“affecting everyone/everything”), the latter of which is commonly translated as 普遍 pǔbiàn or 普及 pǔjí. I also left out 大众的 dàzhòng de and 民间的 mínjiān de, which are ideally conceptualised as “used by the people”, a little different to the essential meaning of “popular” in my opinion, but worthy of mentioning nonetheless. And now, onto the list…
31 Words For Idiot In Chinese
It seems I’m a bit obssessed with synonyms. Just for fun, here is a list of 31 ways to say “idiot” in Mandarin, ranging from most common to least common.
8 Words for Popular in Mandarin
1. 流行 liúxíng The generic word for “popular”. Can be used in almost any context when talking about things – 流行音乐 (“popular music”), 流行设计 (“popular designs”), 流行游戏 (“popular games”), etc. It can’t describe people though.
OMG! Chinese Buzzwords! (26)
半吊子(bàn diào zi) Senseless and tactless (in speech), mealy mouthed, dabbler, smatterer, slacker, unfinished
OMG! Chinese Buzzwords! (24)
骂山门(mà shān mén)
Shout abuses in public This phrase contains two terms, "scolding" and "mountain gate." The "mountain gate" refers to the entrance to temples or monasteries which are located on steep mountains.
Mandarin Chinese Romanization: Comparing Yale to Pīnyīn and Wade-Giles
This is the third of three tables you can use to look up a how a Mandarin Chinese sound is spelled with roman letters and ompare how it is spelled in two other major romanizaion system—especially useful if you run across a spelling in a system you’re less familiar with.
Mandarin Chinese Romanization: Comparing Wade-Giles to Pīnyīn and Yale
This is the second of three tables you can use to look up a how a Mandarin Chinese sound is spelled with roman letters and ompare how it is spelled in two other major romanizaion system—especially useful if you run across a spelling in a system you’re less familiar with.
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