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If you don’t know how to pronounce “Beijing,” and really even if you do, you should check out this wonderful informational video they put out to educate and entertain.
My Mandarin is kind of rusty so I’m looking forward to more lessons from these two characters in the future… I wonder if they take requests for words/phrases to teach us???
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10 Comments to “How to pronounce “Beijing,” courtesy of Two Chinese Characters”
darkmoon wrote:
How about: “ren” (people/person).
I wanna see how they’d teach how to roll the tongue for the “er” phonetic. lol.
Posted on 12-Jun-08 at 12:15 am | Permalink
John wrote:
Hey, this was cool. Where did you come across this?
Posted on 12-Jun-08 at 12:19 am | Permalink
jun wrote:
ummmm… is it just me but despite the informative nature i feel this was wayyyy too corny…
*shrugs*
Posted on 12-Jun-08 at 12:39 am | Permalink
jozjozjoz wrote:
Jun, I think they are supposed to be corny.
Tongue-in-cheek, right?
Posted on 12-Jun-08 at 8:52 am | Permalink
jozjozjoz wrote:
John, I’m not sure where I came upon this. I think someone shared it via Google Reader.
Posted on 12-Jun-08 at 8:55 am | Permalink
jun wrote:
ok… good, lol
Posted on 12-Jun-08 at 9:17 am | Permalink
Xxxtine wrote:
I think it’s cute … yes corny, but cute
Posted on 12-Jun-08 at 5:02 pm | Permalink
Jesse wrote:
my Mandarin teacher used to beat us with a ruler if we pronounced “jing” with a French “J” sound.
true story.
Posted on 16-Jun-08 at 8:56 am | Permalink
jozjozjoz wrote:
Sometimes I hear people totally butchering things in Chinese and I’d like to beat some of them with a ruler.
Posted on 16-Jun-08 at 9:09 am | Permalink
Jun wrote:
this korean kid always butchers chinese when he tries to speak it… lol
Posted on 16-Jun-08 at 10:24 am | Permalink
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