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My goal is to help you achieve the second goal described above by highlighting and explaining some of the traps and pitfalls that await students learning Pinyin. There are other systems in use as well, but in this article, I want to focus on Pinyin, as that is what a vast majority of students learn first. The currently dominating romanisation system (a system used to convert written text to our alphabet from another script) is called Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音), or just Pinyin for short.
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Tune in to the Hacking Chinese Podcast to listen to this article:Īvailable on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcast, Overcast, Spotify and many more! Pronunciation written down on paper is not the same thing as the sounds themselves, yet they are often mixed up, leading to inefficient learning and teaching, something I wrote about in an earlier article you can check out here: What’s the difference between Chinese pronunciation and Pinyin? Does it matter? It’s also more or less a requirement in modern society, because most Chinese input methods on computers and phones are based on typing the sounds rather than the characters. Learning how sounds are written enables us to use dictionaries, learn the pronunciation of new characters and words, and in general access the sounds via the written language.
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We also need to master pronunciation beyond individual sounds, including tones and intonation.
#Struggle session hanyu pinyin how to
First, we need to learn how to pronounce and distinguish sounds that don’t exist in our own language or adjust sounds that do exist in our language, but are pronounced somewhat different.Some of these are relevant for learning any foreign language, some are particular to Mandarin in particular. Learning to pronounce Mandarin Chinese properly comes with a number of challenges.