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in reply to a message by Mar
I agree, Mar. I know there are many ways to pronounce a letter, specially in Chinese. Anyway, there are some basic rules that we could try to expose, so if not perfectly, unless we could pronounce the nearest way to the right form. In my last book (Mike C, Lumia and Magia have each one) I've included a guide of pronunciation of several languages, included Chinese, but... only for spanishspeakers. Thanks.
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Of course there are always "sounds" that cannot be expressed in a certain language, for example the pronunciations of German or French names on this site here are also a bit (or a lot) off sometimes, but well, that can't be helped...
One can at least include the "major rules" to avoid major mispronunciations due to the Pinyin system. For example that the "Y" is silent and only there because of a "pinyin rule" saying that every chinese syllable must have a consonant and a vowel. Like, Yu is pronounced "u" or "ü". But I wouldn't know how to write that letter in English ;)
One can at least include the "major rules" to avoid major mispronunciations due to the Pinyin system. For example that the "Y" is silent and only there because of a "pinyin rule" saying that every chinese syllable must have a consonant and a vowel. Like, Yu is pronounced "u" or "ü". But I wouldn't know how to write that letter in English ;)
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