Reading

TheChineseReader is a very useful website for people learning to read Mandarin Chinese. You can paste in any text in Mandarin and the website will transform the text into clickable annotations. This is wonderful for anyone having difficulty in understanding a Chinese text and wanting that extra bit of help. Excellent tool!

绕口令 1（rào kǒu lìng ）

In the file, the English translation is provided with the literal meaning of each word since the focus of tongue twister is for us to practise twisting our tongues. :-) As you can see from the literal translations, some of the tongue twisters do not make sense at all. Nonetheless, it is still nice to know what you are talking about while practising the pinyin syllables. I hope that the English literal translations are helpful. If you want my sound files to check your prnuncition. Let me know. Have fun!

Children's rhymes

1.大头(dà tóu)                                                       2.大脚大 (dà jiǎo dà)   

3.小青蛙 (xiǎo qīng wā )                                        4.九十九 ( jiǔ shí jiǔ )