Lessons 1-10 Mandarin Chinese Lesson 37: 发音 Pronunciation

你的 中文发音 很 好。 Your Chinese pronunciation is very good.
Nĭde Zhōngwén fāyīn hĕn hăo.
You-of Middle-Writing send-noise very good.

他的 中文发音 不 好。 His Chinese pronunciation isn't good.
Tāde Zhōngwén fāyīn bù hăo.
He-of Middle-Writing send-noise not good.

这位 老师 发音 很 好。 The teacher's pronunciation is good.
Zhè wèi lăoshī fāyīn hĕn hăo.
This position old-master send-noise very good.

请问, 这个 字 怎么 发音? Excuse me, how do you pronounce this word?
Qĭngwèn, zhè gè zì zĕnme fāyīn?
Please-ask, this one character how send-noise?

刘 先生 英语 发音 不 好。 Mr. Liu's English pronunciation is not good.
Liú xiānshēng Yīngyŭ fāyīn bù hăo.
Liu first-born English-language send-noise not good.

王 小姐的 发音 太好了。 Ms. Wang's pronunciation is extremely good.
Wáng xiăojiĕde fāyīn tài hăo le.
Wang little-big-sister-of send-noise very good finished.

他 发音 不 清晰。 His pronunciation is not clear.
Tā fāyīn bù qīngxī.
He send-noise not clear-understanding.

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Mandarin is a tone language--that is, different pitch patterns actually distinguish one word from another. Mandarin has no irregular verbs or noun plurals to learn, because words have only a single form. Because Mandarin is completely unrelated to any European language, you may think it might be difficult to develop your vocabulary. However, it really is not that difficult. Why? The reason is that the meanings of many words consisting of two or more characters can be inferred from the meanings of the characters or even the roots of individual characters. So, your vocabulary can rapidly expand when you have grasped the basic characters and character roots.