Comments on: Chinese pronunciation help?

By: erlampo

erlampo — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:06:29 +0000

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.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:06:29 +0000

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

By: Liuzhou Laowai

Liuzhou Laowai — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:06:29 +0000

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.