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Learn Chinese consonants pronunciation in easy way
Here we learn Chinese consonants: some consonants are similar to consonants in English but some are not and need your concentration on practise:
b - as as "p" but not breathe out
p - as the "p" in "pen"
m - as the "m" in "month"
f - as the "f" in "fang"
d - as the "t" in "team"
t - as the "t" in "ten"
n - as the "n" in "nose"
l - as the "l" in "lonely"
g - as the "g" in "god"
k - as the "k" in "king"
h- as the "h" in "home"
j- practise it
q- as the "ch" in "choose"
x- as the "s" in "sit"
z- as the "z" in "zero"
c- as the "ts" in "tsunami"
s- as the "s" in "sun"
r- as the "r" in "red"
'zh, ch, sh' are similar to, but strictly different from 'j, q, x' respectively so please practise it
y- as the "y" in "yes"
w- as the "w" in "wood"
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Learn Chinese Vowels pronunciation
Here are the single and double vowels in Chinese
a - as the vowel in "bar" without the "r" sound
o - as the vowel in "poor"
e - as the vowel in "per"
i - as the vowel in "sit"
u - as the vowel in "flood"
ϋ - Try it in practise section
ai - as the vowel in "mike"
ei - as the vowel in "bake"
ui - Try it in practise section
ao - as the vowel in "shout"
ou - as the vowel in "bow"
iu - Try it in practise section
ie - combination of 'i' and 'e', as the vowel in "vierra"
ue - combination of 'u' and 'e', as the vowel in "buena"
er - combination of 'e' and 'r', as the vowel in "early"
an - as the vowel in "anchor"
en - as the word "earn" without the "r" sound
in - as in the word "inn"
un - Try it in practise section
ϋn - Try it in practise section
ang - as the word "shanghai"
eng - Try it in practise section
ing - as the vowel in "sing"
ong - Try it in practise section
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Learn Chinese tones pronunciation in easy way
In this lesson we learn Chinese tones. In Chinese, there are 4 main tones: 1,2,3,4 and a toneless tone:
In Chinese there are many homonyms so using tones is the best way of making new vocabularies from a limited number of syllables.
Here are 4 main tones:
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