Comments on: Learning to pronounce Mandarin with Pinyin, Zhuyin and IPA: Part 2 https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-to-pronounce-mandarin-with-pinyin-zhuyin-and-ipa-part-2/ A better way of learning Mandarin Tue, 16 Aug 2022 10:25:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Olle Linge https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-to-pronounce-mandarin-with-pinyin-zhuyin-and-ipa-part-2/#comment-93505 Tue, 29 Mar 2022 06:30:38 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=6792#comment-93505 In reply to 山至伟.

Yes, there should be! It’s sometimes easy to forget to update things like this, so thank you so much for pointing it out! I’ve added a link now.

]]> By: 山至伟 https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-to-pronounce-mandarin-with-pinyin-zhuyin-and-ipa-part-2/#comment-93494 Mon, 28 Mar 2022 23:03:01 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=6792#comment-93494 Shouldn’t a link to the third article be present at the end of this one?

]]> By: admin https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-to-pronounce-mandarin-with-pinyin-zhuyin-and-ipa-part-2/#comment-4081 Thu, 30 Jul 2015 19:09:32 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=6792#comment-4081 In reply to Harland.

What learning materials are using IPA for Chinese? I know of only Glossika, which might me “too many” if you really, really hate it, but I’m still curious which other books are using it. 🙂

If your comment was for English language teaching, I agree. I was also force-fed IPA without understanding it when I learnt English. It didn’t help at all and I remember nothing of it from that time. I only started liking it when I studied phonetics at university and had a brilliant professor.

]]> By: Harland https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-to-pronounce-mandarin-with-pinyin-zhuyin-and-ipa-part-2/#comment-4080 Thu, 30 Jul 2015 13:47:26 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=6792#comment-4080 Man, I freakin’ hate IPA. Talk about a user-hostile experience. I understand what it’s for, but unfortunately too many learning materials use it. Why? Because it’s what professional linguists use, and they either don’t know or don’t care that everyone else finds it incomprehensible. Yet another one of my flaming hatreds for look-down-their-noses academic linguists who make learning Chinese much harder than it ever needed to be.

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