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Are intials of Chinese Pinyin similar to English?

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[Souiset4n]

fucking pinyin

[jradetzky]

@DrSpeakwell u r right. I find it so confusing to learn pronunciation thru pinyin, for me listening to the native speaker's pronunciation repeatedly is much easier

[DrSpeakwell]

Chinese (Mandarin) is NOT a spelling language. Chinese pronuunciations are integrated not sequential. In a spelling language like English, you pronounce the consonants/vowels in sequence according to its spelling order. In Chinese, you integrate the phonemes (at most 2) together to pronounce an integral sound. Mandarin has 37 phoneme symbols to give 59 unique phonemes, which are used to generate ONLY 417 unique integrated sounds w/ various tones Mandarin is easy.  Pinyin is rubbish.

[DrSpeakwell]

Chinese (Mandarin) is NOT a spelling language. Chinese pronounciations are integrated not sequential. In a spelling language like English, you pronounce the consonants/vowels in sequence according to its spelling order. In Chinese, you integrate the phonemes (at most 2) together to pronounce an integral sound. Mandarin has 37 phoneme symbols to give 59 unique phonemes, which are used to generate ONLY 417 unique integrated sounds w/ various tones Mandarin is easy. Pinyin is rubbish.

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

No. The initial "R" is the toughest: try to sound out the English "r," but keep your tongue curled back. In this case it will also sound like the French "j" (which is often incorrectly used for the sound of "j" in "Beijing") and also like the Spanish "r" (trilled).

[shecutess]

This is one of the best videos ever!

[AnimenerdMuffin]

Yeah I think most of these are pretty close to english, which makes these pretty easy! :D