I checked with my speakers and you’re right – the examples you gave seem to be pronounced slightly differently in Taiwan. Some of these variations extend to parts of Mainland China as well, so like you said, if you have the opportunity to listen to different speakers that probably helps.
Just a pedantic nit-picking comment. Towards the end of the lesson, Kirin says Raphael will introduce himself using normal speed speech. She says ‘zi wo’ but should that not be ‘zi ta’ in the context of talking about another person?
It appears that “ji” is given in its simplified form in the vocabulary and new character sections, even though I am in traditional character mode. Please check on this. Thanks!
I like the increasing use of Chinese
Are these Taiwan pronunciations?
ya3zhou1 (Taiwan?) as opposed to ya4zhou1
gu3ji1 (Taiwan?) as opposed to gu3ji4
Also should zhao4dao4 not be zhao3dao4 ?
I don’t mind Taiwanese, in fact I like the fact that you feature a number of different voices (enables better calibration of my Mandarin filters ;)).
Hello Chris,
I checked with my speakers and you’re right – the examples you gave seem to be pronounced slightly differently in Taiwan. Some of these variations extend to parts of Mainland China as well, so like you said, if you have the opportunity to listen to different speakers that probably helps.
Just a pedantic nit-picking comment. Towards the end of the lesson, Kirin says Raphael will introduce himself using normal speed speech. She says ‘zi wo’ but should that not be ‘zi ta’ in the context of talking about another person?
The “ziwo” in this case goes together as its own word, meaning “self”. So it can’t be split into “zi ni” or “zi ta”.
Hope that helps!
Adam, please check the number of continents, I think there are 5 instead of 7 as is stated in this lesson
The 7 continents we think of are: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.
It appears that “ji” is given in its simplified form in the vocabulary and new character sections, even though I am in traditional character mode. Please check on this. Thanks!
Thanks for pointing this out – should be fixed now!