Articles tagged with ‘Finals’

1. Training and testing your ability to hear Mandarin sounds

   

   Learning to hear the sounds in a new language is a very important step, both to understand it and to pronounce it yourself. This article gives you methods and tools for training and testing your ability to hear the sounds of Mandarin.

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2. Focus on initials and finals, not Pinyin spelling

   

   Instead of worrying too much about Pinyin spelling and what sounds each letter represents, students of Mandarin should zoom out a bit and focus on initials and finals as whole units. There are only around 60 of them and focusing on them will pay off handsomely.

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