Mandarin Chinese Pronunciation, Video 1: Tones and the Pinyin Spelling System

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Mandarin Chinese Pronunciation, Video 1: Tones and the Pinyin Spelling System

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This is the first of a 4-part series on Mandarin Chinese pronunciation. The goal is to get familiar with the sounds of Chinese and the IPA symbols. You'll then be able to learn them faster, either through your own studies or through my pronunciation trainers. More links below:
Flashcard Designs for Teaching Yourself Pronunciation: blog.fluent-forever.com/gallery/
My Pronunciation Trainers: fluent-forever.com/product/fl...
Anki Language Learning: ankilanguagelearning.com
More Anki Decks, including Chinese Pronunciation: speakada.com
Reddit's Anki Language Learning Community: / ankilanguagelearning
A super detailed discussion of the IPA: • Pronunciation Tutorial...

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@FLlTTER 9 жыл бұрын

I have no desire to learn Mandarin, but your videos are so interesting I can't help but watch this.

@xtricman 6 жыл бұрын

It's good that this video mentioned the actual situation about Mandarin third tone, the falling/rising is only used in isolated context.

@victorcoelho8400 2 жыл бұрын

I've tried to learn so many languages these past years just because I love them all and I get so glad when I start one, come to this channel and see that there's a video about it here! Thanks for your hard work.

@FluentForeverApp 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Victor, we try! 😊

@SonGoku-uv4pk Жыл бұрын

Why not finish learning them?

@BenJones1127 4 жыл бұрын

It's a shame Mandarin isn't on the app, omggg this is so helpful

@pallieterbeer168 9 ай бұрын

After the disappointment of watching you Dutch pronunciation video I am glad I watched this one. I lived and worked in Taiwan and China for 22 years and though I never applied myself I speak the language enough to get around, order food, read message, street and place names, menus(can be really fascinating), etc... This was a very good intro to Chinese pronunciation. I have always found that once you got the basics down Chinese is a pretty simple (though not easy) language to learn. I love the Traditional characters as they convey more meaning.

@FluentForeverApp 8 ай бұрын

We're happy that you found it useful! Thanks for your comment 🙂

@ramoni7742 3 жыл бұрын

Bravo,very helpful !!

@dmanakell 5 жыл бұрын

Can you do one about Vietnamese?

@ramzy-6566 Жыл бұрын

amazing video. Thank you.

@FluentForeverApp Жыл бұрын

We're happy you enjoyed it!

@zacharywho5442 5 жыл бұрын

Geeze it was hard to find the first video.

@ramzy-6566 2 жыл бұрын

Great video.

@FluentForeverApp 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😊

@wangxiang2044 Жыл бұрын

Strictly speaking, 妈(ma1) and 马(ma3) are not homophones since although they have the same initial and final, they have different tones.

@xtricman 6 жыл бұрын

Seems to have much same material compared to the Cantonese video.

@lepredator189 7 жыл бұрын

Much like my language, Yorùbá.

@maraoz 3 жыл бұрын

大家好！

@jacksonlee8300 4 жыл бұрын

What is zǎozi？I’m Chinese and I have never seen that word

@CluelessBerk 4 жыл бұрын

Jujubes, ”枣子“

@bsci01 2 жыл бұрын

dates the fruit

@mrhu7399 7 жыл бұрын

Her voice is nice. I guess she is from southeast china.

@lulu-therussianblue6977 Жыл бұрын

这中文发音还是差点意思呀 x发成c的音

@caseyandtoryshalloween1236 3 жыл бұрын

735 syllables in chinese

@mishtletsatsomoka4944 7 жыл бұрын

*That girl's taiwanese, right? She doesn't pronounce right the X, H and Sh.*

@michaeltheboombringer2848 6 жыл бұрын

They definitely didn't sound like the ones I'm used to.

@Enigmatism415 3 жыл бұрын

It's not just Taiwan; zh/ch/sh are generally merged with z/c/s south of the Yangtze River. This distinction is typically a northern one, whereas most southern topolects have lost it to time.