4 Chinese triphthong finals _ Pinyin Lesson 08 - Learn Mandarin Chinese Pronunciation

Hello everyone, this is Litao Chinese. My name is Zheng Tao, and I am your teacher. Welcome to our practical Chinese video course, Pinyin Lesson 8. In the last episode, we learned nine compound finals. Let's do a quick review first. Please repeat after me. In this lesson, we are going to learn another four compound finals. The four finals are very easy to pronounce. The first one is The sound followed by very quickly. Read after me, please. The second one is The sound followed by very quickly. Please read after me. The third one is The sound followed by very quickly. Repeat after me, please. The fourth one is The sound followed by very quickly. Please repeat after me. wēi Let's read the four compound finals one more time. yāo yóu wái wēi Before we get into the next exercise, there are some spelling rules I have to introduce to you first. According to the rules we learned in the previous lesson, when the four finals stand for syllables by themselves, they are written like this. When the finals yóu and wēi go with the initials, they are written like this. For example, when yóu goes with n, we have to drop o. When wēi goes with d, we should drop ə. But remember, the sounds don't change. In the last episode, we also learned how to mark tones. We should follow this priority sequence. But I mentioned, there is one exception. That is, yóu will always put the tone mark on the top of ʊ. For example, nióu Okay, let's use some useful words to practice. And I will read each word twice before I show you the meaning of it. yào to want biǎo watch piào ticket fā piào receipt tiào to jump tiào wǔ to dance niǎo bird jiāo to teach qiǎo bridge xiǎo small yǒu to have niú cattle liù number six jiǔ number nine xiū to repair xiūxǐ to rest kuài fast shuài tensor wei Chinese people always say this word when they pick up the phone duì right or correct tuī to push guì expensive huì will zuǐ mouth zhuī to chase shuǐ water ruìshì Switzerland Well, that's all for today's episode. Thank you for watching. See you next time.