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Re: basic sounds

Ria Smit — Wed, 22 May 2013 00:16:08 GMT

If students choose words from Mandarin that they want to learn in English, teachers have to learn those words also, for vocabulary exercise purposes. Wouldn't

Re: basic sounds

Nelson Bank — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:16:21 GMT

There is a standard putonghua. It was chosen from many competing dialects in China. The one from Beijing won out. It has standard

Re: basic sounds

nate jarvis — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:06:47 GMT

In China, when we speak about "Chinese", we speak about 'pu tong hua', the language that is universally taught. If we speak about any other language then we

Re: basic sounds

Nelson Bank — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:20:52 GMT

<'pu tong hua', the language that is universally taught> And in which teachers have to teach. I was just wondering if I wouldn't be rocking the boat by

Re: basic sounds

Ria Smit — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:06:24 GMT

E Chan, from Malaysia wrote: Yes, dialects. The southern coastal dialects mostly do not have any R at all. So much for THE Chinese language and people. ... In

basic sounds

Dave — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:47:48 GMT

I asked an ex-student (Masters interpretation BFSU) about sounds of English / Chinese... her reply "Yes there is a whoooooole system of phonetics for Chinese

Re: a couple of free online lessons

Graham Paterson — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:45:53 GMT

... < Lately, for one of my classes, I give everyone a copy of the daily English-medium newspaper. Then we pick out an article which interests us and go

Re: a couple of free online lessons

Merton Bland — Sat, 18 May 2013 23:10:03 GMT

Lately, for one of my classes, I give everyone a copy of the daily English-medium newspaper. Then we pick out an article which interests us and go around the

a couple of free online lessons

karen — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:24:06 GMT

I was at one time a subscriber to a New Zealand-based website that provides excellent lessons, especially good for teachers who teach classes in which students

Re: basic sounds

e c — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:23:29 GMT

The R and L liquid sounds are families of sounds. It might be simplistic to say that Chinese has it so students should be able to sound American. The north

Flipping the classroom

Margaret Orleans — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:06:17 GMT

Dear All, Here's an article with specific examples of how to flip a classroom, something Dave Kees often recommends. It's about elementary classrooms, but

basic sounds

Dave — Sat, 11 May 2013 13:49:23 GMT

... think that they cannot pronounce the /r/. They actually have that sound in their phonemic inventory. The word for 'two' is 'er', with

Re: basic sounds

Nelson Bank — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:32:40 GMT

<"ri" as in riben> The initial 'r' is fricatized. It isn't in English. I'm using the U.S. English 'r' in /r/. The 'r' in Mandarin 'er' sounds just like

Re: basic sounds

nate jarvis — Thu, 09 May 2013 11:24:18 GMT

I thought r-controlled vowels were slightly different from initial /r/? The "ri" as in riben or riyong is different from English's initial /r/, isn't it?

Re: basic sounds

Nelson Bank — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:34:12 GMT

There's some confusion with the /r/ and /l/. It seems Chinese students think that they cannot pronounce the /r/. They actually have that