{"id":13680,"date":"2019-11-22T08:21:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T08:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/spoken-chinese\/an-introduction-to-mandarin-chinese-pronunciation\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T08:21:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T08:21:17","slug":"an-introduction-to-mandarin-chinese-pronunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/an-introduction-to-mandarin-chinese-pronunciation\/","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction to Mandarin Chinese Pronunciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Before we get to the building blocks of pronunciation, here are a few words of advice:<\/p>\n<p>  To learn proper Mandarin Chinese pronunciation, you should plan to start with a great deal of listening practice, and then receive coaching from someone who already speaks Chinese to help you work out whichever sounds give you, individually, the most trouble.<\/p>\n<p>  That is, you may master many sounds the first or second time you hear them, but some are bound to give you trouble for hours, days, weeks&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>  Even sound files or tapes can&#8217;t teach you to make the sounds that challenge you most, perhaps how to twist your to<em><\/em>ngue and cheeks to differentiate between xi and shi, or between chu and qu.<\/p>\n<p>  No, you&#8217;ll need a coach.<\/p>\n<p>  And here&#8217;s a hint: Look for a coach who can explain in clear terms and show you what you need to do with your speech organs to make each sound properly, such as wher your to<em><\/em>ngue should go, and whether your lips should be tight or relaxed. If a person cannot do that, that person cannot teach pro<em><\/em>nunciation effectively.<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-766529967\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we get to the building blocks of pronunciation, here are a few words of advice: To learn proper Mandarin<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2855,2853],"tags":[151,157,114,1385],"class_list":["post-13680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pronunciation","category-spoken-chinese","tag-mandarin","tag-mandarin-chinese","tag-pronunciation","tag-teach-you"],"views":188,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}