CLO_103: Teaching Phrases III
Phrases: Numbers
Zheng4chang2 yu3su4
Rang4 wo3men xian1 ting1 yi2ci4 jin1tian1 zheng4 chang2 yu3su4de dui4hua4.
Man4 yu3su4de
Rang4 wo3men zai4 ting1 yi2ci4 jin1tian1 man4 yu3su4de dui4hua4.
Gen1zhe
Qing3 gen1zhe lao3shi1 chong2fu4 yi2bian4.
Zhe4ge nan2ren2 wen4.
Ran2hou4 zhe4ge nv3ren2 hui2da2.
Ta1 ji4xu4 shuo1.
Phrases: Tones
Zhèng cháng yǔsù
Ràng wǒmen xiān tīng yícì jīntiān zhèng cháng yǔsùde duìhuà
Màn yǔsùde
Ràng wǒmen zài tīng yícì jīntiān màn yǔsùde duìhuà
Gēnzhe
Qǐng gēnzhe lǎoshī chóngfù yíbiàn.
Zhège nánrén wèn.
Ránhòu zhège nǚrén huídá.
Tā jìxù shuō.
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March 18th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Luise (Liqin) i’m reviewing many lessons before jumping to level3. unfortunately i haven’t learned caracters yet and just getting back to learning spoken mandarin again.
my question is : is there a way for me to recognize U as in ‘nuren’ or OU as in ‘yusu’ by reading pinyin only. at your own time regards
March 18th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Hi Ruide,
The pinyin for nǚrén is easy to recognize because the u has two dots above it (ü). So it is pronounced more like “new” rather than “nu”. In yǔsù, the yǔ doesn’t have the dots, so it has a standard pronunciation.
Hope that helps!
March 19th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Luise, i understand the ‘new'’ou’ pronunciation with the 2dots. it’s when i come across a
noun/adjective/verb without the dots. Ex: wu3liao, xu1yao, ru2guo. i have learn to recognize w’ou’liao > will i be making a lot of miss pronunciation > or is there a simple way to know(u or ou) immediately. thanks for your time
March 19th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Hi Ruide,
Ah, I see your point now. Words like lǚ and nǚ use the two dots, to distinguish between standard “lu” and “nu” sounds. However, like you mentioned, this same sound appears in other characters such as:
ju, jue, juan, jun, jiong
qu, que, quan, qun, qiong
xu, xue, xuan, xun, xiong
For these characters, the ǚ sound in pinyin isn’t written with the two dots, since this is the only sound in Chinese for these words, so we don’t need to distinguish it from any other sounds.
As far as I know, the above characters are the only pinyin sounds that use the “ew” sound rather than “u”. Hope that helps!
June 22nd, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Hi Adam,
The audio for this lesson cuts out right after these lines:
“And then the woman replies.”
Kirin: Ránhòu zhège nǚrén huídá 然後這個女人回答然后这个女人回答.
It’s about 5 minutes into the lesson.
June 22nd, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Fixed, thanks! I noticed that there isn’t enough time for you to respond to some of the questions, so I’ll get that fixed as well. Please continue to let me know about such issues.
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:35 am
Tried again today. I am playing directly off the site, with the popup player, and it still stops at the same point.
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:50 am
Hi Judith,
Is it possible that your computer is playing a version that was saved in memory? I just checked and it works fine now (whereas earlier today it cut off like you said). Let me know if you still have problems.