Mandarin Chinese---Lesson 7 ( Chinese alphabet--mix vowels)

Lesson 7 –Chinese Language Learning

 Program (mix vowels)

Hello, everyone. It’s so nice to see you again. This is Baixue’s Chinese Language Learning Program lesson7. We almost finish our learning of Chinese language pinyin. I really hope that you have already known how to pronounce all of the initials and finals with or without tones. Today, we are going to learn some “mix vowels” or we also can call them as “compound vowels”. Why I call them “mix vowels”? Because you can see that each of these vowels has more than one vowel. Nowadays, some people put these vowels into the group of compound vowel.  But I will separate them from the compound vowels. Because I think that it will be easier to learn and to remember.

Ok, let’s take a look at these “mix vowels” and please read after me.

ia, ua, uo, iao, uai, ian, uan, üan, iang, uang, iong.

iā	iá	iǎ	ià		uā	uá	uǎ	uà
uō	uó	uǒ	uò		iāo	iáo	iǎo	iào
uāi	uái	uǎi	uài		iān	ián	iǎn	iàn
uān	uán	uǎn	uàn		üān	üán	üǎn	üàn
iāng	iáng	iǎng	iàng		uāng	uáng	uǎng	uàng
iōng	ióng	iǒng	iòng

You may notice that when you pronounce these “mix vowels”, you can just pronounce them from the first vowel to the last vowel. For example: ia, ua, uo, iao, uai, ian, etc. So you see that you can pronounce them directly, or you can read them from the first vowel to the end vowel. You can choose one way that is easier for you to read these mix vowels correctly. It is very easy, isn't it?

Now, we are done with the “mix vowel” of Chinese mandarin (language) pinyin. Today’s homework is to practice the pronunciation of these 11 “mix vowels”. The more you practice, the better your pronunciation becomes.

 Ok, that is all for today. We will have a review in our next class.

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