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LC-9010 - Chinese 1, Online teaching, 12.9.2022-4.12.2022

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Lesson 1 Pinyin Session 1 学拼音 12.9.2022-18.9.2022

  • Lesson 1 Pinyin Session 1 学拼音 12.9.2022-18.9.2022

    Lesson 1 Pinyin Session 1 学拼音 12.9.2022-18.9.2022

    Learning outcomes:

    • Get to know the Chinese pronunciation system
    • The pronunciation of Chinese consonants and vowels
    • The pronunciation of tones

    Please go through all the material on this page and submit the homework by the end of week 18.9. 23:59.  

    What is pinyin

    The pronunciation of Chinese characters has been written with Latin letters since 1956, when the so-called Pinyin System was officially invented. The Chinese word Pinyin means “spelling language”. It is used mainly to teach spoken Chinese. In fact, if a foreigner only wants to learn how to speak Chinese, he really doesn’t need to spend time learning Chinese characters at all; the simple Pinyin System is adequate to help him to master spoken Chinese.

    Although Pinyin is already a complete “spelling language” for writing Standard Chinese speech, in China it is not regarded as a written language system. Up till now, it has only been used as a tool to learn spoken Chinese and new Chinese characters.

    The vowels and consonants of Pinyin

    Vowels:

    a  o  e   i  u  ü

    Note that e and i are pronounced very different depending on which consonant comes before them. 


    Consonants:

    b  p  m  f  d  t  n  l  g      

    k  h  j  q  x  z  c  s  zh        

    ch  sh  r

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      Pronunciation guide File
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      The two ways of pronouncing the 3rd tone File
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      Additional material in Finnish URL
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      Pinyin table (please listen to the sounds and repeat) URL
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      Guide to pronounce Mandarin Chinese URL
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      20 Fun Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About China URL
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      HOMEWORK Task 1 - Pinyin session 1 and learning diary Assignment
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      HOMEWORK Task 2 - Please listen, repeat and record (Loanwords part 1) Assignment
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