Talk:Chinese (Mandarin)/Pronunciation of Initials

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It would be extremely useful if this page listed at least one chinese word for each initial described here along with a recording of a native speaker speaking it. While it is nice to have a description of the sounds, nothing can replace actually hearing it. --128.179.67.72 07:29, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm trying to recruit a native speaker to provide these samples. But for now, if you go to Lesson 1 there are recordings of the new vocabulary words, so you should be able to start off pretty well even without looking through the pronunciation section.


 * &mdash; Everlong 13:49, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

If you need to find samples, go to the wikipedia page on the IPA representation of the sound and there will be a proper sound sample which you will be able to upload here. Jocke pirat (talk) 17:14, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

I added some sound files, but I don't think any are available for the aspirated sounds. Also, I didn't bother to put in sound files for phonemes which are the same as the English equivalent. TrueDat (discuss • contribs) 05:39, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

clear of the tongue tip
"clear of the tongue tip" is a little vague to me, what specifically is meant by the tongue tip and how do i clear it? YukataNinja 16:31, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah. The phrase "slowly pass it backwards along the tongue until it is entirely clear of the tongue tip" was used, with slight modifications, to describe j, q and x. But it's not clear what it means. TrueDat (discuss • contribs) 05:06, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Alternate "c" pronunciation?
There's a site with a handy pronunciation table, apparently of all the standard Mandarin syllables ... but all the syllables beginning "c" are pronounced (to my untrained ear) just like those beginning "k", but with longer vowel sounds afterward. Can someone explain? 70.15.114.2 (talk) 05:44, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Pronounce
Many pronunciations of this item are not standard.I'm zh-N.这里有很多发音不标准. 范博2004 (discuss • contribs) 07:47, 18 September 2022 (UTC)