Mandarin Chinese---Lesson 5 (Chinese alphabet--nasal finals)

Lesson 5 –Chinese Language learning 

program (Nasal Vowels)

Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Baixue’s Chinese Language Learning Program. Last time, we learned 9 Compound finals of Chinese language pinyin (Chinese mandarin pinyin). I hope you have already remembered how to pronounce them. Today, we are going to learn Nasal vowels. From our previous class, we already know that 9 vowels “an, en, in, un, ün, ang, eng, ing, ong“ combine a vowel with the nasal ending -n or –ng, so they are nasal finals. Please listen to me to pronounce them first and then read them with 4 types of tone.

ān	án	ǎn	àn		ēn	én	ěn	èn
īn	ín	ǐn	ìn		ūn	ún	ǔn	ùn
ǖn	ǘn	ǚn	ǜn
āng	áng	ǎng	àng		ēng	éng	ěng	èng
īng	íng	ǐng	ìng		ōng	óng	ǒng	òng

I will give you some examples for these nasal finals.

Chinese pinyin finals	Pronunciation of finals compare to that of in English	examples
an	The pinyin final “an” like “an” in English word “ant”.	fán   màn         翻    慢
en	The pinyin final “en” like “en” in English word “end”.	fēn    hèn          分    恨
in	The pinyin final “in” like “in” in English word “ink”.	xīn    yìn          心   印
un	It pronounces from vowel “u” to vowel “en”.	hūn   tūn 昏    吞
ün	It pronounces from vowel “ü” to vowel “en”.	yǘn   qǖn 云    群
ang	The pinyin final “ang” is similar to “un” in English word “hunt”.	háng   tàng 航    趟
eng	I cannot find similar one in English word for “eng” pronunciation in pinyin.	téng    gèng 疼    更
ing	The pinyin final “ing” is similar to “ing” in English word “sing”.	yìng   tīng  硬    听
ong	The pinyin final “ong” like “ong” in English word “tong”.	kòng    hóng 控    红

Ok, please read after me.

ān	án	ǎn	àn		ēn	én	ěn	èn
īn	ín	ǐn	ìn		ūn	ún	ǔn	ùn
ǖn	ǘn	ǚn	ǜn
āng	áng	ǎng	àng		ēng	éng	ěng	èng
īng	íng	ǐng	ìng		ōng	óng	ǒng	òng

Now, we are done with the Nasal vowels of Chinese mandarin (language) pinyin. Today’s homework is to practice the pronunciation of these 9 nasal finals, to compare them between Chinese and English and to find what the difference is. The more you practice, the better your pronunciation becomes.

 Ok, that is all for today. We will learn how to read the whole syllable in our next class.

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