Pinyin-summary

I think it is useful to collect those posts about Pinyin in a single post and put it under the 'useful posts'.
It is reasonable to know why you may want to study Pinyin, when there are alternative solutions to the phonetic system of Mandarin. This brief introduction may give you some feeling.
You can go over the 3 components of Pinyin in more detail with our hints and audio file.
Initials:
b p m f
d t n l
g k h
g q x
z c s
zh ch sh r y w
Finals:
All finals are integrated in this post.
Tones:
In standard Mandarin, there are only 4 of them, so not that hard.
Be a bit careful that the following may sound a little beyond your expectation when they are combined together:
zhi chi shi ri zi ci si
Now all you have to do is just to link them together, and practice, practice and practice! I will post the pinyin for dialogues and words soon, you just try your best to mimic. This tool is useful and you can listen to the standard pronunciation of those characters that you are not sure about.

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