Initials b p m f
Chinese Pinyin is like the phonetic symbols in English. With the help of Pinyin, you can sound out a lot of Chinese characters. Now let’s just start with four of …
Course: Learn Chinese: Introduction to Chinese Pronunciation and Tone
How to learn Pinyin well?
Chinese Pinyin is a tool which can help you to read and speak Chinese. In our course we will help you to recognize Pinyin and pronounce them. The main task …
Table of Initials and Finals
The table of Initials and Finals helps you understand the rules of pinyin.
Introduction to Pinyin
In this course, we will learn Chinese phonetics and start to speak Chinese together. First, let’s get to know what Pinyin is. Many people know how to say hello in …
Welcoming you to the course
Welcome to our “Introduction to Chinese: Pronunciation and Tone” course, the second in our ‘Learn Chinese’ ExpertTrack! The course educators Zhang Yanli and Zhu Xuan are both Chinese teachers from …
Congratulations and welcome to the end of the course!
Thank you for spending the past three weeks with us and finishing our course. We learned all the pronunciation and tones of Chinese Pinyin. Let’s have a review of the …
The r sound and compound finals iu ui un
Méinèi Jiànwǔ, a student from Japan felt “r” is quite difficult for Japanese. Do you have the same difficulty? When you pronounce r, the shape of your mouth is the …
Delivering wishes (Happy birthday song)
We have learned “shēngrì”（birthday）and “chūnjié”(spring festival). How to deliver your wishes on these special day or festival? We use “kuàilè”（happy）. For example, Shēngrì kuàilè! — Happy birthday! Chūnjié kuàilè! — Happy Spring festival! …
Articulation position of z zh j
Xuē Zàilín，a student from South Korea thought that z zh j are very difficult. In this video, let’s figure it out together with her. When you pronounce “z zh j” …
Expressing “I want…”
When you want something or want to buy something, you could say “Wǒ yào……。”（I want）Please listen and read those sentences about asking for some fruits to practice your pronunciation. Audio …
Tone Practicing
Many learners feel tones are the most difficult part in Chinese. When learning tones, you should remember the fixed sounds of each tone first. The first tone is high and …
How to bargain in Chinese?
As we learned, you can say “Duōshǎo qián？”to ask price. So how to do the bargaining? Here are the common expressions: Audio Tài guì le。— Too expensive. Piányi yìdiǎnr ba! …
Aspirated and Unaspirated Sounds
From this lesson onward, you are now able to read and speak all the sounds in Chinese. Now, you should practice and increase your accuracy and confidence towards pronunciation. In …
Congratulations and welcome to the end of the week!
Thank you again for following us so far. You’ve learned all the pronunciation and tones in Pinyin by now. Congratulations! Initials zh ch sh r z c s are the …
Delivering your comments and judgments
To deliver simple comments or judgements, we usually say “hǎo” for good, “bùhǎo” for not good. Here are some more expressions. Click to listen. Audio fēi cháng hǎo — Excellent …
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