Sunday 25 October 2009

Learning Pinyin & Tones

I wanted to do a proper post about learning Hanyu Pinyin and the Chinese tones.

I found this video which is remarkably helpful distinguishing the intials, finals and tones. Though it looks like it was made for children, It hink it is useful for anyone learning the language.




I will write a post when I get my new laptop with tables of the intials, the finals and the tones. With tips on how they are pronounced and equivalents in English. Hopefully this will give a little more deatail to what this video shows with how the syllables can be put together.
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11 comments:

  1. Cindy25 October 2009 at 13:13

    This is great!!

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  2. Anonymous25 October 2009 at 22:28

    So funny actually...but useful!

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  3. Anonymous25 October 2009 at 23:59

    Ha ha... Me myself sometimes cannot tell the difference bewteen "n" and "ng"

    If you talk quickly, no one can tell it either! Ha ha

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  4. Unknown26 October 2009 at 13:36

    So funny!

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  5. Charlie @ Discovering Mandarin27 October 2009 at 08:37

    Thanks for all of your comments!!

    I really like it - very useful.

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  6. SirSteven30 October 2009 at 14:52

    My very first few months of studying Chinese were with some old primary school grade 1 and 2 textbooks that a girl gave me. The books were over 15 years old, but still enormously useful...!

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  7. Charlie @ Discovering Mandarin31 October 2009 at 15:10

    @SirSteven - I think books are going to be useful whatever the age. Learning from the start is probably the most natural.

    How much was covered in those books?

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  8. Charlie @ Discovering Mandarin31 October 2009 at 15:10

    I have to admit on watching it again...

    The animation is absolutley ridiculous. But the sound is incredibly useful for me to distinguish the differences in some simliar sounding initials.

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  9. Dan L. Johnson4 November 2009 at 11:42

    I found that one on youtube, too, and listened to it several times. It helps to start as kids do, I guess. I would like to locate more like it, something I could take with me when I don't have youtube access.

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  10. Charlie @ Discovering Mandarin4 November 2009 at 14:55

    I haven't found any lesson style things that have this as a podcast.

    (In truth not having an mp3 player and not travelling that much not sure I would find it that useful)

    If I find anything though, I will be sure to post it here.

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  11. David6 November 2009 at 11:29

    Thanks for the video. I am learning chinese and I would really appreciate if you could more details about the video content as written your article.

    Good article !

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