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怎么说拼音 x 的发音？
I listened a podcast episode from Coffee Break Chinese (http://radiolingua.com/2017/08/cbc-1-18-zuo-dit...) and found that her pronunciation of xing is q bit different from what I'm familiar with. Her xing sounds more like 'sing' in English. I always pronounce it more like 'shing' in English.
At the beginning of the episode, she says 很高兴 and the pronunciation was different from what I heard from other Chinese people.
Is it some kind of an accent or something?
怎么说拼音 x 的发音？
I listened a podcast episode from Coffee Break Chinese (http://radiolingua.com/2017/08/cbc-1-18-zuo-dit...) and found that her pronunciation of xing is q bit different from what I'm familiar with. Her xing sounds more like 'sing' in English. I always pronounce it more like 'shing' in English.
At the beginning of the episode, she says 很高兴 and the pronunciation was different from what I heard from other Chinese people.
Is it some kind of an accent or something?
I listened a podcast episode from Coffee Break Chinese (http://radiolingua.com/2017/08/cbc-1-18-zuo-dit...) and found that her pronunciation of xing is q bit different from what I'm familiar with. Her xing sounds more like 'sing' in English. I always pronounce it more like 'shing' in English.
At the beginning of the episode, she says 很高兴 and the pronunciation was different from what I heard from other Chinese people.
Is it some kind of an accent or something?
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The woman in the audio is not a native. You're right her xing in 高兴 sounds like sing. And it's incorrect.
Actually other parts are also a little strange. Her third tone is too exaggerated. It always sounds like ↘↗↗, but natives usually just pronunce ↘↗ in sentences, only exaggerating it into ↘↗↗ when reading a single character. It's tiring to always pronunce ↘↗↗.
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x in Chinese sounds like し シ in Japanese.
as you know English speakers can not pronounce し シ very well.
so they said it as sing or shing.
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Listen to the audio above. It's different from linjy12's pronunciation, isn't it?
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Yes ,but her pronunciation is not correct, English speaker can not speak x very well.
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「xi」は「シ」と似ているけど、「シ」ではありません。しいて言えば「スィ」ですね。
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スィ→颚化→シ
ツィ→颚化→チ
sy→颚化→xi≈シ
cy→颚化→qi≈チの有気音
zy→颚化→ji≈チの無気音
It's not so hard to pronunce and distinguish xqj, because they're always and can only be followed by vowel i and ü.
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The woman in the audio is not a native. You're right her xing in 高兴 sounds like sing. And it's incorrect.
Actually other parts are also a little strange. Her third tone is too exaggerated. It always sounds like ↘↗↗, but natives usually just pronunce ↘↗ in sentences, only exaggerating it into ↘↗↗ when reading a single character. It's tiring to always pronunce ↘↗↗.
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It was easy for me to understand! Thanks, gyouza.
So s becomes x when followed by i or ü. Then, it's the same as Japanese and Korean!
So s becomes x when followed by i or ü. Then, it's the same as Japanese and Korean!
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In addition, I guess you've already known it (ㆆᴗㆆ) but I still want to remind that the the "i" in Pinyin "si,zi,ci,shi,zhi,chi,ri" is not the vowel "i". It's the reason for that I wrote sy instead.
The i in Pinyin si,zi,ci sounds similar to 으 (but the high and low teeth should be closer, almost touch each other).
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