Not the best person to answer this question but since you requested to me, here’s how I memorize Mandarin pronunciation (spelling) of Chinese Characters.
For Chinese Characters and their meaning,
Visual images effectively help a lot…
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For Mandarin, Cantonese, and any Chinese dialect pronunciation,
If you know the topic of “Syllable Structures”, then here it is…
I studied Japanese Kanji (漢字) first and then self-studied Korean Hanja (漢字) and Vietnamese Hán tự (漢字)/ chữ Hán.
So, comparing them through syllable structures pattern is how I would study the Chinese language.
- onset: initial letter sounds
- nucleus: median letter(s) sounds
- coda(s): final letter(s) sounds
I will share images and answer…
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Kirby Cho
· 1y
Why does Cantonese sound like Korean, much more so than Mandarin?
For Mandarin, it has to do with both pronunciation and how it is spelled/ romanized when comparing the two. As for Cantonese, here’s how I can explain the similarities between the two in a more meticulous answer. Similar pronunciation between Cantonese words and Sino-Korean characters (or “Hanja” [漢字…
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I hope that this helps?