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As an [[A2|elementary learner]] of Mandarin Chinese, you hopefully have already gotten a handle on most of the "[[tough sounds]]" of the language. Unfortunately, being able to pronounce a word when you drop everything and focus super hard on that one- or two-syllable word isn't quite good enough. Time to push on into more challenging phrases before you can truthfully say you have ''mastered'' the really challenging sounds of the language.
  
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== Tough Sounds: Consonants ==
  
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=== Tough Sounds: x- / sh-, q- / ch-, j- / zh- ===
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=== Tough Sounds: r- ===
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== Tough Sounds: Vowels ==
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=== Tough Sounds: -an / -ang ===
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=== Tough Sounds: -e ===
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=== Tough Sounds: -ou / -uo ===
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=== Tough Sounds: yu / -ü / -u ===
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=== Tough Sounds: yun / -un ===
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=== Tough Sounds: -uan / yuan ===
  
 
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Revision as of 10:34, 5 May 2020

As an elementary learner of Mandarin Chinese, you hopefully have already gotten a handle on most of the "tough sounds" of the language. Unfortunately, being able to pronounce a word when you drop everything and focus super hard on that one- or two-syllable word isn't quite good enough. Time to push on into more challenging phrases before you can truthfully say you have mastered the really challenging sounds of the language.

Tough Sounds: Consonants

Tough Sounds: x- / sh-, q- / ch-, j- / zh-

Tough Sounds: r-

Tough Sounds: Vowels

Tough Sounds: -an / -ang

Tough Sounds: -e

Tough Sounds: -ou / -uo

Tough Sounds: yu / -ü / -u

Tough Sounds: yun / -un

Tough Sounds: -uan / yuan