哈囉大家好！ 哈啰大家好！ Hello everyone!
I’m Grace
In today’s video, I’m going to talk about
some common pronunciation mistakes that my students often make
if you’re making these mistakes as well
we’ll fix them today and make you sound more like a native speaker!
我們開始吧！ 我们开始吧！ Let’s get started!
The first common mistake is pronouncing some words
exactly according to how the Pinyin is spelled
As you might know, Pinyin can sometimes be a bit tricky
Here are some common ones
You can try pronouncing them
A lot of students pronounce them according to their Pinyin
and they would sound like “yan” and “yuan”
But these are not the correct pronunciations
They are actually pronounced as “yen” and “yuen”
It’s the “e” sound in the middle, and not the “a” sound
“yen” “yuen”
Let’s practice them with some words:
Now let’s see some other pronunciations:
How would you pronounce these?
Don’t pronounce them exactly as their Pinyin is spelled
There is actually a hidden “u” sound in the middle
so instead of pronouncing them as “bo po mo fo”
you should pronounce them as “buo puo muo fuo”
Let’s practice:
The next one is
A lot of my students either pronounce ü like i
or pronounce ü like u
so if you pronounce “ü” like “i” that means that
your lips are not rounded enough
Many of my students pronounce this word (“學習”) like “xie xi”
which sounds like an “i” in the middle and not “ü”
so you should round your lips more and say “xue xi”
Let’s practice some more words
If you often pronounce “ü” like “u”
then that means you do round your lips enough
but you didn’t move your tongue forward and high enough
The “u” sound is pronounced by moving your tongue high and backward
however, the “ü” sound is pronounced by
moving your tongue high and forward
Now let’s practice
OK, that’s all for today!
If you like this type of video
where I point out common pronunciation mistakes
please let me know in the comments!
Also, other than the sounds we mentioned today
if you have problem pronouncing or distinguishing some other sounds
let me know in the comments
and I might talk about them in my future videos!
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Last but not least,
if you want to learn some daily Mandarin expressions,
check out my Instagram @gracemandarin
那我們就下次見囉!掰掰! 那我们就下次见啰!掰掰! I’ll see you next time! Bye!