Pronunciation challenge, October 2022

Glossika Halloween shadowing. Bu! Nice doing this challenge with you all. I learned a lot, about what I don't know about pronunciation. 开门，is theoretically kai1men2. But at the end of a sentence i...

Glossika shadowing. 我们只收现金。wo3men5 zhi3 shou4 xian2jin1. We only accept cash. The Glossika speaker pronounces the last character as a neutral tone rather than a first tone. In my pronunciation I d...

Glossika shadowing. I guess my aim in pronunciation is to be understood by a native speaker. I don't need to sound like a native speaker. My perception of the tones is often quite different from t...

Glossika provides both the Pinyin and IPA transcription of their exercises sentences. The IPA seems to handle the sandhi tones pretty well, but I don't know if they consistently mark the spoken ton...

Glossika. Question what is the rule for pronouncing three third tones in a row? E.g., 我可以? Glossika said it was 323. But I seem to remember that I've seen 223.

Mango App--rediscovered this on my iPad and it looks like it's changed up the format. Very useful stody!

工作很努力。gong1zuo4 hen3 nu3li4. The work is very hard. I thought that li4 in nu3li4 would be pronounced with a definitive 4th tone, but the Glossika speaker said it slightly drawn out as if it were a ...

Glossika shadowing. I noticed that when a sentence ends in a tone 1, the pronunciation of the Glossika speaker is either neutral or a third tone. For example in 完全不如预期，wan2quan2 bu4ru2 yu4qi1, It w...

Glossika reps.

Returning after a weekend in the countryside. More Glossika shadowing and text vocabulary tones. In the sentence 自己给自己，to give to oneself, Google translate says that 给 has the pronunciation ji3, in...

预习了《新目标汉语口语课本5》第一课的课文

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About 15 on Chinese Skill pronunciation exercises and 15 on Glossika reps. Feeling a little more comfortable each time, I think, although I get to a point after a while where I just can't get anyth...

《现代汉语语音教程》的联系

Glossika shadowing. Here's a sentence that taught me something new pronunciation wise. 我来验血的。wo3 lai2 yan4 xue2 de5. The Glossika speaker says wo3 lai2 yan4 xie3 de5. I would have used the xue2 pro...

我会上闹钟，wo3 hui4 shang4 nao4 zhong1, I have to set an alarm. This sentence has three 4th tones in a row, but the Glossika speaker pronounces the 3rd 4th tone with a lower tone that sounds like a 3rd ...

Evening. Glossika repetitions. Feeling a little more comfortable with some of the more complex sentences.

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Glossika shadowing and studying tones of characters in texts. I realize I've been pronouncing yuan as yuen, e.g, 院 yuan4. 我找不着了 wo2 zhao3 bu4 zhao2 le "I couldn't find it". When I first heard this,...

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Chinese Skill App: went back to earlier units and did pronunciation practice exercises. Having a difficult time with "r," particularly in initial position. (ri-ben--couldn't get the app to let me p...

《现代汉语语音教程》的联系

Doing Glossika shadowing. Here's a question on the Glossika speaker's rendition of 真是罕见呀，zhen1shi4 han3jian4ya, (That's really unusual.) He did not pronounce the n's at the end of zhen or jian, so ...

Did Glossika shadowing, and worked on correct tones for sentences in a Chinese novel. I have a pronunciation question for the phrase 在这. Can 这 be pronounced as zhe4, or is it always pronounced zhe4...

Duolingo and Glossika speaking exercises. Duolingo exercises were a disaster....