Comments on: Two types of pronunciation problems and what to do about them https://www.hackingchinese.com/two-types-of-pronunciation-problems-and-what-to-do-about-them/ A better way of learning Mandarin Sun, 27 Oct 2019 15:23:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Olle Linge https://www.hackingchinese.com/two-types-of-pronunciation-problems-and-what-to-do-about-them/#comment-57244 Sun, 27 Oct 2019 15:23:34 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=11346#comment-57244 In reply to Harland.

That’s a good point. The reason I don’t write about it much (although it is covered in the beginner course) is because it’s very resource intensive and I simple don’t have the know-how and money/skills to produce accurate and instructive graphics/video for something like this. I do show/talk about this in class when teaching all the time, though. That’s quite rare, though, I’m somewhat of a phonetics nerd after all. The truth is that most teachers, native and non-native alike, simply don’t know enough phonetics to accurately describe (draw, explain, whatever) all the sounds. So, it’s either because it’s hard/expensive/time-consuming to produce or because the teacher doesn’t know enough to do it. Or both!

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By: Harland https://www.hackingchinese.com/two-types-of-pronunciation-problems-and-what-to-do-about-them/#comment-57163 Fri, 25 Oct 2019 05:37:44 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=11346#comment-57163 What I’ve almost never seen done is teaching students the correct mouth movements for sounds. Mimicking is just assumed to be the answer. Well you can’t mimic a sound that requires a strange mouth movement that you’ve never considered using. How’s a student supposed to figure out X or Q on his own?

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