Learn to Speak Mandarin Chinese Online Free » mandarin pinyin http://freechineseblog.com Learn to Speak Mandarin Chinese Online Free Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:49:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Pronouncing Chinese Final Vowels http://freechineseblog.com/how-to-pronounce-the-final-vowels-in-mandarin-chinese/ http://freechineseblog.com/how-to-pronounce-the-final-vowels-in-mandarin-chinese/#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:53:30 +0000 admin http://www.freechineseblog.com/?p=90 In this video you’ll learn how to to say the final vowels in Mandarin Chinese pinyin. Each character in Chinese starts a consonant called an initial and ends with a vowel called a final. Overall the vowel finals are pretty easy to pronounce and there are just two or three tricky ones. The most basic vowel sounds are: a, o, e, ai, ao and ou.




A = ah

O = ouh

E = Like the e in “yes”

Ai = Like the y in “by”

Ao = Like the ou in “ouch”

Ou = Like oh in “oh my gosh”






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