Mandarin Chinese Pinyin Pronunciation (Better Chinese)

very useful. thanks so much

Thanks for your help. I'm taking chinese language classes now, and I struggle a bit with some of the sounds. This helps me a lot. Thanks again

Excuse me!!! do you think u can help me learn Chinese Mandarin? im really into learning it, but its hard for me to to understand plus i dont have time to go to school because of work :( but i really want to learn!!! i need a Teacher.

My teacher said to look this up for homework and I am glad he did. This was very helpful. =]

If one were to have spelled the Hebrew name Benjamin in Chinese, the approximate Mandarin Pinyin transliteration would be: "Ben-jia-min" if I'm not mistaken.

Thank you, my teacher is hard to hear in class so its good to hear the different to some of the harder sounds.

Shes just showing how to pronounce the sounds. Which is a great help for a tone death person like me.

It has nothing to do with an alphabet. But they are sounds that are used in every word.

Chinese is more about sounds then really focusing on the letters. You see the way you pronounce say Tu, there are four meanings to the world.

Also Chinese does not have the word yes or no, but negatives and positives used before a word to show it.

Well that is how ow teacher taught us.

I've begun Level 1 Mandarin at my college and it's already fun. I also already have proficiency in Japanese, so I know many of the characters used in Chinese (at least the stroke order- pronunciation is somewhat the same.) For example, the Japanese character (山) is pronounced 'san' or 'yama'. The former is left over from the Chinese 'shan'.

The character by the way means 'mountain'.

Having learned German, the umlauted u was easy for me haha