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Aug. 2nd, 2005
Pronunciation
Aug. 2nd, 2005 02:42 pmStill working on the Pinyin guide. For the curious, the updated temp url is: http://www.mychineseschool.com/sushu/pronunciation/
If anyone is interested in giving it a read-through, please tell me what works/doesn't work, makes no sense, or produces weird sounds. Should I mention that the g is a hard g, like in "grind"? I'm not trying for rigorous linguistical-ness (I mean, palate people might know, but alveolar, probably not), but anything that seems too out of the place?
I mean, you guys are 60 years old and interested in Chinese art, right?
In any case, I've suddenly realized why there's no jong or jang in Chinese... the consonant is too much in the front, so it can only link to vowels such as i ("ee") and ü. So instead you can have jiang and jiong. Yay for language making sense!
If anyone is interested in giving it a read-through, please tell me what works/doesn't work, makes no sense, or produces weird sounds. Should I mention that the g is a hard g, like in "grind"? I'm not trying for rigorous linguistical-ness (I mean, palate people might know, but alveolar, probably not), but anything that seems too out of the place?
I mean, you guys are 60 years old and interested in Chinese art, right?
In any case, I've suddenly realized why there's no jong or jang in Chinese... the consonant is too much in the front, so it can only link to vowels such as i ("ee") and ü. So instead you can have jiang and jiong. Yay for language making sense!