Difference between revisions of "Pinyin: the "r" sound"

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Level
Related to
1. Tough sounds r- (A2)
Referenced Initials
- r-

Have you every noticed that the "r" sound is different in many foreign languages? English, Spanish, Russian, French, Japanese, German... the "r" sound is different in every one. Well, guess what? It's also different in Mandarin Chinese. Pinyin "r-" does not make the same sound as "r" in English. In fact, the Mandarin Chinese "r-" sound does not exist in English, so you're going to have to train yourself to make the sound.

	-a-	-a	-ai	-ao	-an	-ang	-e-	-e	-ei	-en	-eng	-er	-o-	-o	-ou	-ong	-i-	-i	-i*	-ia	-iao	-ie	-iou	-ian	-iang	-in	-ing	-iong	-u-	-u	-ua	-uai	-uei	-uo	-uan	-uang	-uen	-ueng
r-				rao rao [ʐɑʊ̯] ㄖㄠ jao	ran ran [ʐan] ㄖㄢ jan	rang rang [ʐɑŋ] ㄖㄤ jang		re re [ʐɯ̯ʌ] ㄖㄜ je		ren ren [ʐən] ㄖㄣ jen	reng reng [ʐəŋ] ㄖㄥ jeng				rou rou [ʐɤʊ̯] ㄖㄡ jou	rong rong [ʐʊŋ] ㄖㄨㄥ jung			ri ri [ʐʅ] ㄖ jih											ru ru [ʐu] ㄖㄨ ju	rua rua [ʐu̯ɑ] ㄖㄨㄚ jua		rui rui [ʐu̯eɪ̯] ㄖㄨㄟ jui	ruo ruo [ʐu̯ɔ] ㄖㄨㄛ jo	ruan ruan [ʐu̯an] ㄖㄨㄢ juan		run run [ʐu̯ən] ㄖㄨㄣ jun		r-

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-Have you every noticed that the "r" sound is different in many foreign languages? English, Spanish, Russian, French, Japanese, German... the "r" sound is different in every one. Well, guess what? It's also different in Mandarin Chinese. Pinyin "r" does not make the same sound as "r" in English. In fact, the Mandarin Chinese "r" sound '''''does not exist''' in English'', so you're going to have to train yourself to make the sound.
+Have you every noticed that the <span class="enpron">"r"</span> sound is different in many foreign languages? English, Spanish, Russian, French, Japanese, German... the <span class="enpron">"r"</span> sound is different in every one. Well, guess what? It's also different in Mandarin Chinese. Pinyin "'''[[r-]]'''" does not make the same sound as <span class="enpron">"r"</span> in English. In fact, the Mandarin Chinese "[[r-]]" sound '''''does not exist''' in English'', so you're going to have to train yourself to make the sound.
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