Learn Mandarin Chinese – Special Pinyin Rules (Lesson 12)

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Learn how to pronounce those Pinyin words that are throwing you off. Also, we’ll look at U umlaut and the final R sound.
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1 – 0:00 – Ēn Wēn Hūn
2 – 0:17 – Fèi Wèi Guì
3 – 0:51 – Hòu Yǒu Liǔ
4 – 1:09 –
4b – 1:21 –
5 – 1:34 – Wò Luò Mò
6 – 1:45 – Lǐ Lǔ Lǚ
7 – 2:01 – I Ü
6b – 2:09 – Lǐ Lǔ Lǚ
8 – 2:31 – Yǘ Yüè Yüán Yǘn
9 – 2:42 –
9b – 2:55 –
10 – 3:16 – èr
10b – 3:27 – èr
11 – 3:45 – nǎr
12 – 3:57 – tiān tiār
13 – 4:07 – míng mír

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Partial transcript
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Hi, I’m Fame Ketover of Lenguin.com and this is Mandarin Chinese. In this lesson we’re going to look at how how Pinyin abbreviates certain sounds. Oh, oh, I got this one. Nine Inch Nails – Gooey – Crossing Oh no??
Alright, so as we move along, there’s going to be some spellings that don’t seem to match up with their pronunciations.
For example, check these out.
Ēn
Wēn
Hūn

Listen again and notice that they rhyme.
Ēn
Wēn
Hūn

Each of these syllables clearly has the vowel sound “uh”, but the last one is spelled without an E. It almost seems like it should be spelled like this. HUEN
Alright, now listen to these.
Fèi
Wèi
Guì

Again, they rhyme
Fèi
Wèi
Guì

Alright, so it wasn’t pronounced “gooey”. To get what the speaker said, it seems like it would have been spelled this way. GUEI Since the “A” sound is spelled EI.
Let’s check out one more set of these.
Hòu
Yǒu
Liǔ

Listen again. Except for the tone, they rhyme.
Hòu
Yǒu
Liǔ

This one seems like it should be spelled LIOU, since the sound O is spelled OU. But the O has been left out.
So we’ve been treating these spellings simply as abbreviations, but they make kinda make phonetic sense. It just so happens that vowels often have a slightly different quality in the first and second tone than in the third and fourth, and in each of these cases the abbreviated spelling is suggestive of the first and second tone’s pronunciation.
For example, listen to these pairs of names.
Yǒu
Yōu
Liǔ
Liú

You might agree that you hear something approaching the simple U sound after the semivowel in the first and second tone names, so that the spelling without the O might be better for both of them.
Listen again and notice that the pairs don’t quite rhyme.
Yǒu
Yōu
Liǔ
Liú

Now listen to the speaker read down the column. This way you may better hear the rhyme.
Yǒu
Liǔ
Yōu
Liú

Now, let’s look at another kind of abbreviation. Listen and notice how they rhyme.
Wò
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