This is the first of three tables you can use to look up a how a Mandarin Chinese sound is spelled with roman letters and compare 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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Mandarin Chinese Initial and Finals: Table 4
This is the fourth of four tables illustrating which pairings of initials and finals do occur in Mandarin Chinese and, by omission, which do not.
Mandarin Chinese Initial and Finals: Table 3
This is the third of four tables illustrating which pairings of initials and finals do occur in Mandarin Chinese and, by omission, which do not.
Mandarin Chinese Initial and Finals: Table 2
This is the second of four tables illustrating which pairings of initials and finals do occur in Mandarin Chinese and, by omission, which do not.
Mandarin Chinese Initial and Finals: Pinyin Table 1
This is the first of four tables illustrating which pairings of initials and finals do occur in Mandarin Chinese and, by omission, which do not.
Well-known Chinese Clothing (中国服装)
Costume in the Han DynastyThe costume of the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-8AD) followed the one established in the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC). In the Eastern Han Dynasty, people in black had to wear purple silk(丝绸 sīchóu) adornments to match their clothes. Ordinary people usually wore costume with a long hat at grand ceremonies offering sacrifices to gods or ancestors. The dress of the queen in these ceremonies consisted of dark-purple frock and black trousers.
Mandarin Chinese Listening Practice: Recommended Films
It’s a simple language learning principle, but many people overlook it for some reason: If you want to learn to speak a language, you must hear it a great deal to become fluent. Babies and toddlers spend quite awhile listening and absorbing sounds before they become natural to them. Why shouldn’t we—especially since we may not have any choice in the matter. To wit: During my first year living in China, I couldn’t get a decent Chinese sentence to come out fluently for nearly six months…and I was trying hard. And then one day my brain seemed to say, "OK, that’s enough input; let’s start talking, Baby!" (My brain is kind of weird that way.)
Sandhi: Tone Shifts in Mandarin Chinese
In some cases, characters aren’t pronounced with their "native" tones (the tones assigned to them). Here are three cases wher tones experience shifts.
Lesson 3: Greeting (I)
Let’s review what we learned in Lesson 2. We learned Family Introduction.Do you remember how to say it in Chinese?
Lesson 1: Self Introduction
Today, we are going to learn how to make a self introduction. Before that, we learn a short greeting. Usually before we introduce our self, we say “ hello ” .
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