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3. Pinyin (Initial Consonants : c, zh, ch, sh, r)

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Lesson #3. Pinyin (Initial Consonants : c, zh, ch, sh, r)

Initial Consonants
z [ts] unvoiced zoo
c [ts'] students, cats
zh, ch, sh, r

Initial Consonants
Initials International Phonetic Systems
zh [tʂ ]
ch [tʂ']
sh [ ʂ ]
r [ ʑ ]

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  • In simplified Chinese, the "queen 后" becomes the "behind 後" and is also "thick 厚", the "face 面" becomes "noodle 麵", and "need 須" becomes "beard 鬚". Your kind offer to cook noodles for some one (我下麵給你吃) will turn into a lewd invitation to fellatio or cunnilingus (我下面給你吃) depending on if you are a male or female. Simplified Chinese are really for simpletons.

    THEY MUST HAVE COMPLETELY LOST THEIR MINDS CONJURING UP the simplified Chinese

  • @Routetosomewhere hi hi, i saw this reply real late. hardly do youtube. :) I'm a full-blooded Chinese and I speak/write both Chinese/English extremely well and I'm shocked with what you've said. Then there is no need to try to teach Mandarin in English. Haha. I'm not relating anything to anything, I'm "bridging" the phoenics between them and if you would repeat the 'Eng-equivalent' I've mentioned it is extremely close or same if you speak both languages well. Cheers! :)

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  • simple for me... ;) zh=ž, ch=č, sh=š r=r LOL

  • @jemencode

    Singlish is not English. And the Chinese spoken in Singapore is hardly Mandarin.

    Stop faking your knowledge about both languages, PLEASE.

  • @podcastyou00 some sources state that the "r" sound can be retroflex approximant [ɻ], a voiced retroflex fricative [ʐ] AND a voiced alveolo-palatal fricative [ʑ] ... Is this right? Is it dialectal? Or are these variations just a nuance and make no difference?

  • @roble14 its so obvious, they sound the same but they start with "dge" "ch" "sh" duh

  • @roble14 they seem to begin with sh and ch sounds, i agree man, this is fockin nutz

  • @quisiera259 why the hell would you want to learn spanish? so you can speak to mexicans?

  • @quisiera259 yo sí

  • @roble14 It took me awhile to get it too... Just keep practicing :) You'll get it

  • It's really hard!! I cannot see the diference among zh, ch, sh ...

  • @quisiera259 Yes, I do it.

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