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Ting Yi Ting

Listening Makes Perfect

听一听 (Ting Yi Ting; Listening Makes Perfect) is an online guide that enables learners to hear and identify phonemic categories in Mandarin, including lexical tones, in a variety of phonetic contexts, and to associate those phonemes with correct Pinyin orthography.

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11. Initials z, c, and s

July 28, 2020 Sheree Willis & Yan Li Leave a comment

This lesson introduces the initials z, c, and s, with finals introduced in previous lessons. These initials may be followed…

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12. Final Practice with the “Fake” i

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As you may recall from previous modules, the letter i represents different sounds in the Pinyin system. In this module,…

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13. Finals with a medial i

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This lesson introduces new finals that begin with the letter i. These include ia, iao, ie, and iu. (The finals…

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14. Finals with Nasals -n and -ng

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By this point, you have no doubt discovered that most syllables in Chinese end in a vowel sound. There are…

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15. Finals with a medial u

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This lesson introduces new finals that begin with the letter u. These include ua, uo (also covered in Lesson 4),…

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16. Finals with a medial ü

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This lesson introduces new finals that begin with the letter ü. These include üe, üan, and ün. In these finals,…

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17. Finals with null initials

June 22, 2020 Sheree Willis & Yan Li Leave a comment

By now, you are probably familiar with tones and almost all initials and finals in Pinyin. You already know what…

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18. Rhoticization: érhuà

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In North American English, many speakers pronounce syllables that are spelled with certain vowels followed by the letter r by…

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19. Pinyin Spelling Conventions

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Pinyin adopts Latin letters to render Chinese sounds with a few special spelling rules. The capitalization and punctuation with Pinyin…

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20. Single-syllable Tones

June 30, 2019 Sheree Willis & Yan Li

In the first module on tones, we introduced tones with simple initials and finals. This module provides more practice with…

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