Learn Chinese Language in English Phonetics



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Chinese words and phrases actually can be spelled with english 
characters that is best understandable to the english-speaking people.

This book is prepared in this manner, yet it covers the fundamental of 
chinese grammer, sentence structure and its application.

Herebelow is the excerpt as sample.

 



S A M P L E  T E X T 


CONTENTS


CHAPTER 1.   INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER 2.   CHINESE PRONUNCIATION IN ENGLISH PHONETICS.

CHAPTER  3.    NOUNS, PRONOUNS  AND VERBS         

CHAPTER  4.   ARTICLES AND NUMERAL

CHAPTER  5.   ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS

CHAPTER  6.    SENTENCES

CHAPTER  7.   TENSES AND MOODS

CHAPTER  8.   SAMPLE SENTENCES




CHAPTER  1.    INTRODUCTION


Ni2 hao3 ma ?  [How do you do ?]

The suffix Numbers to each word denote the Tone Pattern. click for explanation.

It is the goal of this book to apply english phonemes and characters to
speak, write and read chinese right down on paper or even into the
computer, as above.

The key to achieve this goal is pronoucing the Chinese words with 
english phonetics, which is called Chinese Pronunciation Codes in
 English  Phonetics(CPCE).

Introduced in this chapter are the fundamentals and properties of the
 Chinese words. 

TIP: DON'T TRY HARD TO REMENBER THE CONTENTS OF THIS CHAPTER.
       Simply get the concepts and  practice them in the coming chapters.
          

HOW FAST SHOULD YOU SPEAK?   	A good rule of thumb is to take
one second per word.  Nevertheless, the interval between two words 
takes about one-third second.

SOUND.    Sound of chinese word is primarily composed of three 
phonetics: initial, middle and final.                                

Typical sound consists of all three(3) phonetics: the initial, middle and 
final.  For example, 
             chien    [thousand]  
 
of which,   are initial, middle and final phonetics respectively. 

Some sounds consist of initial and final phonetics only. For example,

              mao    [cat]  

Other sounds, such as  [ah], consists of only one single phonetic,
called single phonetic word (SPW).

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CHAPTER  3.    NOUNS, PRONOUNS  AND VERBS          
  
  
PERSONAL PRONOUNS.

  - Singular form.
 
 	    Wo3   [I]    Ni3  [you]       Ta  [he/she/it]
                               
        
  - Plural form.

      wo3 mern2  [we]    ni3 mern2  [you]     ta mern2 [they]              
 
      [mern2] is added to change a personal pronoun to its 
 	   plural form.
 
   - Objective cases are the same as their Nominatives.

       wo3 [me]    ni3 [you]    ta [him, her, it]                           

       wo3 mern2 [us]  ni3 mern2 [you]   ta mern2  [them]

   - Possessive cases are formed by adding [der5].

     wo3 der5 [my]   ni3 der5 [your]        

    	 ta der5 [his/her/its]

        wo3 mern2 der5 [our]   ni3 mern2 der5  [your]    

        ta mern2 der5 [their]

EXERCISE.

   1. good/well  [hao3]     no good  [bu4 hao3]

   2. How are you?	                                    
                       
      Ni3 hao3 ma ?                                          

     [ma] is an auxiliary, and placed at the end of the 
      sentence to ask question.	


The suffix Numbers denote the Tone Pattern. click for explanation.



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