Chinese Language Learning Program
Lesson 9 – How to read or spell Chinese pinyin
Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Baixue’s Chinese
Language Learning Program. We have already finished our learning of the basic
knowledge of Chinese mandarin 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 how to read or spell Chinese pinyin.
Actually, we have learned how to read or how to
spell Chinese pinyin when we learned the finals. When I gave you some examples
for pronouncing the finals, I read the whole syllable with tones. Today, we
will have a whole lesson to show you how to read Chinese pinyin.
In our previous class, we talked about that
Chinese character has only one syllable, and each syllable consists of initial
+ final + tone. For example:
nǐ
(你)：
Initial (n)+Final (i)+ Tone(v)
hǎo
（好）：
Initial (h)+Final (ao)+ Tone(v)
Initial is consonant and Final is vowel.
In some
cases, the initial can be omitted. This means that some pinyin/syllables only
have finals, they do not begin with any initial. These cases are called
"Zero initial"(零声母). For example:
ài
爱 (love)
|
é
鹅 (goose)
|
ǒu
藕 (lotus root)
|
ér
儿 (son)
|
So, how
to spell Chinese pinyin correctly?
1. When you want to read a pinyin/syllable of
Chinese language, you need to pronounce the initial first, then from the
initial to the vowel (Except the "Zero initial"). For example: when
you spell Chinese pinyin zhāng, you pronounce the initial"zh"
first, and then you pronounce the final "ang" to
make a syllable. At the end of the spell, you read the initial and final at the
same time, just like you read a whole syllable.
2. Please do not make a pause between the initial
and the final when you read Chinese mandarin pinyin,. For example, when you spell
gǔ(古,
ancient). You read it as “gǔ”. But if
you make a pause after pronouncing “g”, you
will spell it as “ge – ǔ”(歌舞, song
and dance).
3. Please make sure to read the Chinese pinyin
with the correct tones. We have already talked about how important of the tones
is in Chinese language pinyin. For example,
— . wǒ kě
yǐ wèn nǐ
yī xìa ma?
我 可 以 问 你 一 下 吗？
Can I ask you a question?
wǒ
kě yǐ wěn nǐ
yī xìa ma?
我 可 以 吻 你 一 下 吗？
Can I kiss you?
So, I hope I make a clear explanation about how
to spell Chinese pinyin collectly. If you have any questions about Chinese
mandarin pinyin, please leave a message for me, I will try my best to give you
the perfect answers. Thanks!
Ok, that is all for today. We will start to learn
some Chinese characters with some simple conversations in our next class.
xìe xìe
(Thanks!)
谢 谢
zài
jiàn (Bye! Or See you next time!)
再 见
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