PUTONGHUA
1. Putonghua is the common language of the Han ethnic group in China. It's standard Chinese language. It's Mandarin and official. It's based on Beijing phonetics and the dialect of the northern China. 2. The Chinese language is divided into seven major dialects. Speakers of different dialects in some cases cannot understand each other, but dialects are unified by the fact that they share a common script. The seven Chinese dialects are Northern dialect, Wu dialect, Xiang dialect, Gan dialect, Min dialect, Hakka(spoken in northern Guangdong and other provinces and Cantonese. 3. Min, Hakka and Cantonese are widely spoken among overseas Chinese communities. In Taiwan a form of Min dialect is used, though the official language is Mandarin. Mandarin is also widely used in Singapore, where it's known as Huayu. Cantonese is mainly used in Hongkong, Macao and Guangdong province. 4. There are two system in written Chinese. One is simplified, the other is traditional. The simplified is used in Mainland. The traditional is used by H.k. Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese communities.
How do we learn pinyin well?
1.Today we will learn pinyin. 2.What is pinyin? Pinyin is the mark of phonetic notation for Chinese characters. It's made of three parts: initials, finals and tones. 3.For example, pĭnyīn, nĭ hǎo, xièxiè, zaìjìan
4.After learn three parts, we should be able to pronounce every single word. 5.How do we learn pinyin?
We divide our pinyin class into 10 classes. In the first or second class, firstly recognize all (three parts. Secondly, practice group by group. Thirdly, do some exercises. Steps: ①带读 ②解释 ③方法 ④放弃
Mistakes：①发音部位 ②发音方法 ③莫名其妙 ü的读法：i→ü First, try to pronounce "i", and then your tongue stays here,gradually purse your lips.Try it yourself. ü的标调方法：When you see j q x y initial goes with ü, you can see u.
INITIALS AND FINALS Initial Sounds:(22
These initial letters have the same pronunciation as in English:(f,l,m,s,(w,(y
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