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Learning Basic Chinese Foundations Pinyin
Created byHaley Li
Last updated 7/2022
English

What you'll learn

  • Understand the building blocks of Pinyin system
  • Master speaking Chinese tones
  • Memories the pinyin Alphabet
  • spell( pronounce ) Chinese Characters with Pinyin
  • Master the basic pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese
  • Write or type in Chinese Pinyin correctly

Course content

3 sections • 11 lectures • 2h 37m total length

  • Introduction2:25

    1. What is Pinyin

      Chinese has a writing system and a phonetic system. The writing system is based on the characters. And the phonetic system is used for marking pronunciation of every character, which can allow the beginner to read and write Chinese without Chinese characters. Also, it is a tool for the beginner to pronounce the characters correctly.

    2. Why do we need Pinyin

      Learning Pinyin is the first step for people who want to master Chinese. Also, it is a good tool for the people who only want to master oral Chinese, which can help to mark the sounds of words.

    3. Components of Pinyin

      Pinyin is made of three parts, which includes the initial, the final and the tone. The initials and the finals are based on letters in English, but the sound of them are different from English. And the tones are really difficult to master at the beginning, but there are only five tones.

    4. Study outline


  • the Simple Final & Tones18:05
  • 1. Practice reading the simple finals with different tones

Requirements

  • Nothing but your passion!

Description

Chinese has a writing system and a phonetic system. The writing system is based on the characters. And the phonetic system is used for marking pronunciation of every character, which can allow the beginner to read and write Chinese without Chinese characters. Also, it is a tool for the beginner to pronounce the characters correctly.

Learning Pinyin is the first step for people who want to master Chinese. Also, it is a good tool for the people who only want to master oral Chinese, which can help to mark the sounds of words.

Pinyin is made of three parts, which includes the initial, the final and the tone. The initials and the finals are based on letters in English, but the sound of them are different from English. And the tones are really difficult to master at the beginning, but there are only five tones.there are 23 Initials, 24 Finals and 16 Whole Syllable Recognization, 4 Tones.


Read and spell allChinese characters correctly and confidently.

Type and write down Chinese Pinyin Characters.

the outline:

  1. Learn the simple finals and the tones.

  2. Learn the initials and how to spell with initials and toned simple finals , and some word - spelling games.

  3. Learn the compound finals and how to spell with initials and  toned compound finals , and some word - spelling games.

  4. Learn the nasal finals and how to spell with the initials and toned nasal finals , and some word - spelling games.

  5. Learn the modified rules and the whole- syllable.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   


Who this course is for:

  • The beginner who wants to master Pinyin.

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