Sensible Chinese

This is part of our Sensible Pinyin Course. To see an overview of the course check out this Sensible Pinyin Course homepage!  The compounds fill out the remaining sounds that we need to cover in Chinese. A compound is simply a sound created from two...

This is part of our Sensible Pinyin Course. To see an overview of the course check out this Sensible Pinyin Course homepage!  Still with us? Believe me you are doing well. We’ve covered all the basics and a lot of the slightly weird sounds in Chinese....

This is part of our Sensible Pinyin Course. To see an overview of the course check out this Sensible Pinyin Course homepage!  Pinyin we’ll going to cover this time – g, k, h, j, q, x. This section introduces some of the more difficult consonant...

This is part of our Sensible Pinyin Course. To see an overview of the course check out this Sensible Pinyin Course homepage!  The 6th Vowel Previously we looked at the basic vowels a, i ,e , o, u. The sixth and final simple vowel final in Chinese is...

This is part of our Sensible Pinyin Course. To see an overview of the course check out this Sensible Pinyin Course homepage!  Just want to jump in? Start with Basic Vowels here. Make sure you download the pinyin chart from this page first though! ...

This is part of our Sensible Pinyin Course. To see an overview of the course check out this Sensible Pinyin Course homepage!  The basic pinyin vowels of Chinese are a, e, i, o, u and ü. For now we’ll deal with a, e,i, o, u right now and deal with...