grammar - How is 就 (jiù) used? - Chinese Language Stack Exchange
Pimsleur's Mandarin course teaches "I'm leaving very early tomorrow morning" as: 我明天早上很早就走 (wŏ míngtiān zăoshàng hĕn zăo jiù zŏu) It says that 就 (jiù) doesn't have a corresponding meaning in …
Why is it written LIU in Pinyin, when there's clearly an O sound?
Jan 20, 2012 · Edit: some arbitrary decision seems to have been made by choosing you instead of yu, but with other initials, the choice was: liu, niu, jiu, etc. when the phoneme /ou/ in all cases is the …
tones - jiu3 pronounced as jiu4 ; linked speech feature or slip of the ...
Oct 9, 2022 · Here is the intonation that is recorded in an instructional video for the clause 我已经很久都不过中秋节了 (wǒ yǐjīng hěn jiǔ dōu bú guò ...
Is there a word for Chinese songs that rhyme like Jay Chou's 迷迭香 …
Oct 4, 2020 · Every single line in Jay Chou's song "Rosemary" ends with the "ao" sound: ni de zui jiao wei wei shang qiao xing gan de wu ke jiu yao xiang xiang bu dao ru ci xin tiao ni …
Reading Years in Chinese - Chinese Language Stack Exchange
Jun 29, 2021 · We know that years like 2021 are read as "er ling er yi nian". But Google Translate reads 2000年 as :liang qian nian. Possibly because "er ling ling ling nian" would …
mandarin - Are there rules about the differences between pinyin ...
The pronunciations of finals do not change when used after different finals, with perhaps only one exception: 'i'. It has three variations: 'zi ci si', 'zhi chi shi ri', and all others. NOTE: Not many Chinese …
Ideas for Chinese leetspeak/computerized speech?
Feb 5, 2023 · For the Chinese leetspeak ideas, recently I’ve been trying by using combining diacritical marks with Unicode that could show on iphones properly to create Chinese characters. Like: Ф Ẋ=中 …
orthography - Proper nouns in pinyin - Chinese Language Stack …
Sep 22, 2025 · You know that pinyin is just a learning aid to help learners know the sound of a character more quickly, right? Nobody writes articles or essays or newspapers in pinyin. It is not a language. …
Resources For Learning Southwestern Mandarin (西南官话)
Jul 18, 2015 · We already have: Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese Useful resources for learning Taiwanese? Resources for learning Cantonese Resources for learning Shanghainese Resources for …
word choice - Difference between 如果 and 要是? - Chinese Language …
In the Pimsleur Mandarin course it uses 如果 (rúguǒ) to mean 'if', but the dictionary shows 要是 (yàoshì) to have a similar meaning: 如果: if; in case; in the event that 要是: if Are there any differen...