Lessons 1-10

Mandarin Lesson 37 他的发音太好了。His pronunciation is extremely good.

他的 中文发音 很 好。His Chinese pronunciation is very good.
Tāde Zhōngwén făyīn hĕn hăo.
He-of Middle-Writing send-noise very good.

同学的 中文 发音 很 好。My classmate's pronunciation of Chinese is very good.
Tóngxuéde Zhōngwén făyīn hĕn hăo.
Same-study-of Middle-Writing send-noise very good.

他的 发音 太 好了。His pronunciation is extremely good.
tāde făyīn tài hăo le.
He-of send-noise very good finished.

这位 老师 发音 清晰。The teacher's pronunciation is clear.
zhè wèi lăoshī făyīn qīngxī.
This place old-master send-noise clear-understanding.

我的 学生们 英语 发音 不 好。My student's English pronunciation is not good.
wŏde xuéshēngmen yīngyŭ făyīn bù hăo.
I-of study-born-plural English-language send-noise not good.

这个 字 怎么 发音? How do you pronounce this word?
zhè gè zì zĕnme făyīn?
This one character how send-noise?

郑 先生的 发音 太好了。Mr. Zheng's pronunciation is extremely good.
Zhèng xiānshēngde făyīn tài hăo le.
Zhen first-born-of send-noise very good finished.

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Lessons 21-30
Lessons 31-40
Lessons 41-50
Lessons 51-60
Lessons 61-70
Lessons 71-80
Lessons 81-90
Lessons 91-100
Lessons 101-110
Lessons 111-120
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.