- The “i” after retroflex sound and after lingual consonant is pronounced differently, so if you don’t understand this and pronounce it with an “i”, it will be mistaken for qi or xi.
- I tried many times to get Google Translate to recognize “haochi” as “好吃(haochi)” and it gave me “好奇(haoqi)”, but this was the reason for that!
- I had a hard time believing that the consonants were mispronounced because they were misrecognized.
- Once I knew the i’s sounded different, I practiced a little and they were correctly identified.
- There are three types of pronunciation in Chinese (language) i
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