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Learn Chinese tongue twister
Many foreigners struggle to learn Chinese and the biggest problem people have with the language is pronunciation. Unlike English, Chinese is a tonal language and in order to speak Chinese language properly you will need total control over your voice. Speaking Chinese for the first time can also make anyone feel self conscious because it’s so different. However you need to set your fears aside; then you can improve your Chinese speaking ability.
Chinese Pinyin will make learning Chinese much easier because you will be able to sound out certain words in your head to pronounce them.
Learning Chinese tongue twister would make the course of learning Chinese pinyin more interesting. For example, "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper" is such an English tongue twister. And let us translate it into Chinese and start to learn Chinese.
The typical example for beginners is "ma". It can mean very differently depending on the tone: "mother" (妈mā), "hemp"
(麻má) "horse"(马mǎ), "scold"(骂mà).Thus, a nice little tongue twister of those with an interest in Chinese language tones is: "妈妈骑马,马慢,妈妈骂马", which means "mother rides a horse; the horse is
slow; mother scolds the horse".
Easy, right? How about learning Chinese now? Come and have a try. Got more questions? Visit http://www.echineselearning.com/ now!
Article Source: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_a3bd7a1101017jsd.html
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