Lesson 2 - Ordering Drinks - Language Points

Language points for lesson 2.

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[crazyhanyu]

guo was originally "state" or "kingdom". Now, it means "country".

[robertgenito]

thank you so much! :) this is very helpful!

[rebelde354]

how do you pronunce 1 or 8, in this way they learn and pronunce all words, the videos are very help full thanks

[EnigmaticOricle]

@RaincloudPlay No. Those language have a phonetic alphabet. For example, in Japanese there are the hiragana and katana alphabets. It seems from these videos that we learn the pronunciation of words using the Roman alphabet. Chinese has no phonetic alphabet. But why?

[RaincloudPlay]

@EnigmaticOricle Without the Roman alphabet? So, chilldren in Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Greek,etc. -speaking countries can't learn pronunciation of their language either?

To answer your question, they learn in the same way a child in any other enviroment learns pronunciations (and tones if it's another tonal language.).

[EnigmaticOricle]

how do chinese children learn these pronunciations/tones without the roman alphabet?

[GGL4l]

Thank you! I am learning Chines and this helps a lot

谢谢

[CabbageNappa]

"Ao da li ya" sounds like a corruption of somebody frustratedly trying to show someone how to say "Australia" one syllable at a time XD

[TheMCulgan]

very good!!

[an0osa]

ههههههه أحلى شي كو كو كولا

بعض ما تعلمت في اللغة الصينية بدون tone

ni hao

wan shang hao

wo jlao anoosa

?? ni ne

?? ni shi na guo ren

xie xie

[fr0sth4x0r]

@dieglhix 我也想去，中国是非常美丽。你是一年级的中国学生吗?

[dieglhix]

我要去中国