Tag: Pronunciation

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.

Ready for Hiking

Nowadays, traveling has become the most popular form of relaxation. Armed with cameras and cash, many people just grab their backpacks and go hiking.

Making Chinese "Roman"

SystemRomanizationNOTE
To give you a more thorough comparison, in the Pronunciation Appendix, I’ve put together pages wher you can compare these systems side by side, part of the "appendix" to this pronunication overview.

An Introduction to Mandarin Chinese Pronunciation

Before we get to the building blocks of pronunciation, here are a few words of advice: To learn proper Mandarin

tongue twisters 绕口令汤圆 Sweet dumplings

过年, 过年, 糥米做汤圆 Guò nián, guò nián, nuò mĭ zuò tāng yuán. 做的

Chinese twisters 绕口令 01 吃葡萄不吐葡萄皮

rào kǒu lìng 绕口令 chī pú tao bú tù pú tao pí, bù chī pú tao dào tù

Lesson 183-Valentine III

Cam: Wo ai Yajie, and wo ai Chinese Studio. Welcome to the show everyone, wo shi Cam.
YJ: And wo shi Yajie. I see you are using your Valentine’s Words already!
Cam: I sure am… but want to learn some more!

Key words of the day
Chocolate. 巧克力 roses. 玫瑰花 candy 糖果. perfume, 香水. Valentine’s Card. 情人节卡片. I’m taking you out for a candlelight dinner. 我请你吃烛光晚餐. All in today’s Chinese Studio.

Learn Chinese Pinyin in 21 Days – Day 20: Spelling Rules

By the standard, Basic Spelling Rules for Pinyin Orthography, called “汉语拼音正词基本规则” in Chinese, issued in 1988 from National Education Commission and national Language Commission of P.R. China, spacing in Pinyin is based on whole words, not syllables.

Learn Chinese Pinyin in 21 Days – Day 18: Finals, uan, uang, üan

In this pinyin lesson, we learn three compound finals, which are uan, uang, üan. We also learn some Chinese characters that use “uan, uang, üan”. In addition, you can have listening exercises and quizzes for uan, uang, üan.