Using the wrong pitch can change the meaningįirst, let’s take a look at all Cantonese tones in a chart: This will be a completely new territory for you. Speakers fail to pronounce it as well while still can perfectly be understood. You might find difficult to pronounce ng-, but don’t worry. Listen to theĮxamples below where the ng- serves as a syllable-inital consonant. It can appear in both syllable-initial and final positions. Syllable-final positions, such as sing, wing, ping etc. In English, the sound ng (IPA ) only occurs in Odd spelling category because they don’t correspond to English spelling. Regular so let’s just go through them one-by-one. Listen to the sample sounds by clicking theīutton and try to imitate the sounds. If you don’t know what IPA is, just skip them. When describing the sounds I will provide the IPA (International PhoneticsĪlphabet) of them. I’m going to break down what you need to learn into Unlike conventional textbooks, I am not going to give you a long soundĬorrespondence table (you can still find it here if you like). Not exist in English), distinctions that are completely new to your ears. There are sounds that areĮntirely new to you: weird sounds that you have never heard before (at least New sounds: I wouldn’t say everything is easy.You need to fine tune it a bit to sound more native-like. Slight deviation: Sometimes the pronunciation seems straightforward, but.Odd Spelling: Some letters or spelling conventions may look unfamiliar to.Hard, but you need to tackle these three things: Cantonese is not tooĭifficult pronunciation-wise (contrary to what you might have heard elsewhere),īut there are things that you need to work on. Bear in mind thatĬantonese and English are very different languages. This is a system that helps learners master the language. Jyutping provides a set of one-to-one mapping rules from Cantonese sounds to Should only be ONE way to spell out each sound (phoneme is the technical term),Īnd there should only be ONE possible sound for each letter. Jyutping, unlike English, is a system that is designed to be regular. Though, through, thought, borough … You get the idea. This four letters sound totally different in cough, In English, the same letter could be pronounced in multiple ways. Remember a handful of symbols to master Cantonese pronunciation. If you already speak English (native or not), you only need to Jyutping is a way to spell out Cantonese words using only letters (a-z) and That’s why we need a phonetic system while you catch up with the characters. You will need about 3000 characters to be functional in Cantonese. Cantonese is usually written in Han characters.
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