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How do I start learning Mandarin pinyin?
10 Tips You Need to Hear for Learning Chinese Pinyin
- Realize that pinyin is not English.
- Realize that pinyin has its own logic and patterns.
- Get some great pinyin learning tools.
- Practice pinyin alone.
- Practice with a native.
- Be strict on yourself.
- Practice consistently.
- Targeted pinyin drills (eg.
How long does it take to master pinyin?
However, to become fluent, experts estimate that it’ll take 2,200 class hours. If you put the rest of your life on hold and focused only on studying Chinese – at 5 hours of practice a day, it would take you 88 weeks. Here’s the long story. When it comes to Chinese, you have two options – Mandarin or Cantonese.
What is pinyin and how to use it?
They are the phonetic transcription of Mandarin Chinese, and you are going to learn how to use it as a tool. Pinyin (拼音) literally means “spelled-sound” in Chinese, it is the phonetics of the characters, but it is not Chinese. It helps you to remember the pronunciations, like its counterpart in English.
What is the best way to learn Chinese phonetics?
One of simple methods for mastering Chinese phonetics is to have “Chinese for Communication” book edition 1. This book is suitable for learning phonetics and it is provided by Mandarin House in the beginner level course. The book introduces pinyin, word formation, and instructs the use of Chinese phonetics.
What are tones in pinyin?
Pinyin and tones always come together to indicate the correct pronunciation of a character. Have you noticed that sometimes there are Latin letters written on top or after the characters? Yes, they are Pinyin, and the tiny lines on top of the vowels are tones.
What does the line on top of a vowel mean in pinyin?
Most sets of Pinyin contain a tiny line written on top a vowel (diacritical mark), like in 欢迎 (huānyíng), it represents one of the four tones in Mandarin Chinese. Unlike English, Chinese is a tonal language, and it might be strange for you to speak with tones for the first time.