The first course at BNU School!
The first lesson of BNU school that I learned today was PinYin basic.
Let's learn Pinyin for helping you to learn Chinese easily by yourself.
The alphabets of Chinese
They consist of 23 alphabets.
b p m f
d t n l
g k h
j q x
z c s
zh ch sh r
http://www.instantspeakchinese.com/pinyin/pinyinInitials.cfm
* You can try to listen and repeat the tone of Chinese Alphabet on the above website.
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Finals
There are two kinds of finals in the Chinese phonetic alphabet, single finals and compound finals.
(i) (u) (ü)
(a) ia (ya) ua (wa)
(o) uo (wo)
(e) ie (ye) üe (yue)
ai uai (wai)
ei uei (wei)
ao iao (yao)
ou iou (you)
an ian (yan) uan (wan) üan (yuan)
en in (yin) uen (wen) ün (yun)
ang iang (yang) uang (wang)
eng ing (ying) ueng (weng)
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* Try to listen from native chinese on http://www.instantspeakchinese.com/pinyin/pinyinFinals.cfm
Word with tone | Description of tone | Description of tone | Name of tone |
Mother | The straight line over the word indicates that the word should be said with a flat and unchanging high tone. | 1st tone | |
To bother | The mark going up above the word indicates the word should be said in a rising tone. | 2nd tone | |
Horse | The down and then up mark above the word indicates that the word should be said with a falling and then rising tone. | 3rd tone | |
To scold | The down mark above the word indicates that the word should be said with a falling tone. | 4th tone | |
Grammatical marker used in a question. | When a word has no tone or mark above the word it is said to be neutral and is pronounced in an abbreviated manner with no emphasis. | Neutral |
Using tones 1, 3, 4, and 5 in order we can form the sentence: mā mà mǎ ma?
This sentence asks the question: Did mother scold the horse?
The following diagram shows how the tones are pronounced in relation to each other.
TONE OF CHINESE
www.instantspeakchinese.com
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