Chinese Pronunciation, Pinyin, and Audio Samples

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1. Post a sample of your pronunciation here! 1 2 3 4 26

   By mandarina, January 16, 2009
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   • Apollys
   • March 23

2. How could I get better at tones? 1 2 3 4 5

   By Kong Junrui, November 6, 2005
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   • Jan Finster
   • December 13, 2019

3. Thai vs Chinese Tones 1 2

   By leosmith, March 9, 2006
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   • Takeshi
   • July 8

4. Where did the idea of pronouncing Pinyin ⟨x⟩ as /⁠ʒ⁠/ come from?

   By Demonic_Duck, June 24
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   • markhavemann
   • June 29

5. most accurate translation of pinyin

   By whatisalot, June 14
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   • Lu
   • June 15

6. Disregarded tones until present - HSK 4, advice on learning them? 1 2

   By Fithen, May 17
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   • mungouk
   • May 20

7. Change of tone for "一“ yi1

   By Mary112233, April 9
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   • Apollys
   • April 13

8. Audio Player for MacBook

   By suMMit, March 27
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   • shawky.nasr
   • March 31

9. Mixing up Tones 1 & 4 in spoken speech. Exercises to remedy? 1 2

   By calibre2001, September 20, 2016
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   • suMMit
   • March 24

10. Learning with soundtrack lyrics - Rebel Princess

    By Mochou, March 5
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    • Leslie Frank
    • March 6

11. Software or Apps for Learning Pinyin/Tones

    By Xadma, January 23
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    • Leslie Frank
    • January 27

12. Pronouncing "qu"

    By i__forget, October 22, 2020
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    • realmayo
    • January 24

13. Tones

    By Sam Addington, April 16, 2008
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    • 酷勁學長
    • January 12

14. Intuitive conversion from third tone to second tone

    By i__forget, December 7, 2020
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    • Jan Finster
    • December 10, 2020

15. rx crappy drugs 開冇鬼用藥 / 开乱七八糟药

    By Leslie Frank, October 24, 2020
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    • Shelley
    • October 28, 2020

16. how is wu pronounced? 1 2 3

    By Smoothie, March 28, 2004
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    • i__forget
    • October 23, 2020

17. Tips for pronouncing "r" 1 2

    By i__forget, October 10, 2020
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    • vellocet
    • October 16, 2020

18. R-coloured vowels without erhua

    By realmayo, October 15, 2020
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    • Takeshi
    • October 16, 2020

19. Sounds from the mouth or throat?

    By realmayo, May 27, 2009
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    • blaketx
    • October 11, 2020

20. Light-medium-heavy syllable stress patterns and other pronunciation subtleties

    By Demonic_Duck, July 28, 2020
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    • Michaelyus
    • September 17, 2020

21. Pronunciation of final -üan 1 2

    By i__forget, September 13, 2020
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    • Demonic_Duck
    • September 17, 2020

22. Pronouncing the "e", "she", "zhe" sounds

    By i__forget, August 17, 2020
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    • 889
    • August 18, 2020

23. Common Voice open-source transcribed audio dataset

    By 大块头, July 8, 2020
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    • NinKenDo
    • August 8, 2020

24. How many sounds in pinyin (for example, a ai an ang ao = 5)? 1 2 3

    By realmayo, January 9, 2008
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    • 889
    • July 26, 2020

25. Natural tone in second character of two-syllable words

    By i__forget, July 14, 2020
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    • anonymoose
    • July 16, 2020