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3 Responses to “Chinese pronunciation help?”

1. erlampo Says:
   October 9th, 2009 at 9:06 pm

   You probably know that Chinese has tones, and you’re not going to get the tones on YA, so you won;t be pronouncing it "effectively and correctlly."
   Wo3 ai4 ni3 – wo3 de bao3bei4.

2. Kelly Says:
   October 9th, 2009 at 9:06 pm

   Pinyin romanization is often misleading to native English speakers, so I’ve provided the pinyin, as well as a rough pronunciation guide in quotes.

   我 (wǒ, pronounced "woh") = I
   爱 (ài, like English "eye") = love
   你 (nǐ, "nee") = you
   我的 (wǒde, "woh-duh") = my
   宝贝 (bǎobèi, "bow-bay," with "bow" like in "Bow to me!") = darling, treasure

   This dictionary has a multiple character lookup so you can see what each character means and how it is pronounced: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?dss=1&wdrst=1&wdqchs=%E6%88%91%E7%88%B1%E4%BD%A0%E6%88%91%E7%9A%84%E5%AE%9D%E8%B4%9D

   You can also do single-word lookups, in case you ever need it: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddictbasic

3. Liuzhou Laowai Says:
   October 9th, 2009 at 9:06 pm

   我爱你我的宝贝 wǒ ài nǐ wǒ de bǎo bèi

   To hear the pronunciation you should visit the following links.

   我爱你 wǒ ài nǐ

   http://www.nciku.com/search/zh/detail/我爱你/833712

   Click on the first little green loudspeaker symbol.

   In 我的 wǒ de, the wǒ is the same as the first wǒ and de is pronounced like ‘de’ in "delight".

   宝贝 bǎo bèi is at

   http://www.nciku.com/search/zh/detail/宝贝/1300458

   Click on the first LISTEN box.