318 - 9 questions about Pinyin and Chinese pronunciation

<p>Learning to pronounce Mandarin can be tricky, and if you misunderstand the link between spoken sounds and Pinyin spelling, it gets a lot worse. Let’s discuss nine questions about learning Chinese pronunciation.</p><p>#learnchinese #pinyin #pronunciation #questions</p><p>Link to the article this podcast episode is based on: 9 answers to questions about Pinyin and pronunciation:<a href="https://www.hackingchinese.com/9-answers-to-questions-about-pinyin-and-pronunciation/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.hackingchinese.com/9-answers-to-questions-about-pinyin-and-pronunciation/</a></p><p>Chinese Language Stack Exchange:<a href="https://chinese.stackexchange.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://chinese.stackexchange.com/</a></p><p>5 websites to help answer your questions about Chinese:<a href="https://www.hackingchinese.com/5-websites-to-help-answer-your-questions-about-chinese/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.hackingchinese.com/5-websites-to-help-answer-your-questions-about-chinese/</a></p><p>101 questions and answers about how to learn Chinese:<a href="https://www.hackingchinese.com/101-questions-and-answers-about-how-to-learn-chinese/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.hackingchinese.com/101-questions-and-answers-about-how-to-learn-chinese/</a></p><p>Hacking Chinese Pronunciation: Speaking with Confidence:<a href="https://www.hackingchinese.com/courses/mandarin-chinese-pronunciation-course/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.hackingchinese.com/courses/mandarin-chinese-pronunciation-course/</a></p><p>Pinyin chart (AllSet Learning):<a href="https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/pronunciation/pinyin_chart" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/pronunciation/pinyin_chart</a></p><p>A guide to Pinyin traps and pitfalls: Learning Mandarin pronunciation:<a href="https://www.hackingchinese.com/a-guide-to-pinyin-traps-and-pitfalls/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.hackingchinese.com/a-guide-to-pinyin-traps-and-pitfalls/</a></p><p>Obligatory and optional tone change rules in Mandarin:<a href="https://www.hackingchinese.com/optional-obligatory-tone-change-rules-mandarin/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.hackingchinese.com/optional-obligatory-tone-change-rules-mandarin/</a></p><p>International Phonetic Alphabet:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet</a></p><p>Learning the third tone in Mandarin Chinese:<a href="https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-the-third-tone/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-the-third-tone/</a></p><p>Focus on initials and finals, not Pinyin spelling:<a href="https://www.hackingchinese.com/focus-on-initials-and-finals-not-pinyin-spelling/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.hackingchinese.com/focus-on-initials-and-finals-not-pinyin-spelling/</a></p><p>Why learning Chinese pronunciation by using English words is a really bad idea:<a href="https://www.hackingchinese.com/why-learning-chinese-pronunciation-by-using-english-words-is-a-really-bad-idea/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.hackingchinese.com/why-learning-chinese-pronunciation-by-using-english-words-is-a-really-bad-idea/</a></p><p>Yuen Ren Chao:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuen_Ren_Chao" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuen_Ren_Chao</a></p><p>Gwoyeu Romatzyh:<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwoyeu_Romatzyh" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwoyeu_Romatzyh</a></p><p>Learning to pronounce Mandarin with Pinyin, Zhuyin and IPA: Part 1:<a href="https://www.hackingchinese.com/l