Today Show Teaching Chinese

hankfdh
 August 12, 2008, 12:48 AM posted in General Discussion
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suburbanite
 August 13, 2008, 03:45 AM

Ah -- proper pinyin, but no attention to tones.  I guess with the context people will not be confused much.

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lostinasia
 August 13, 2008, 02:40 PM

Chinese without tones: I once got a Berlitz Mandarin Chinese phrasebook, shrink-wrapped, alas. Got home, tore open the "no refund after opening" plastic, and discovered it had no tones. Couldn't believe it. A pity - the vocab lists and structure are great. It's really well-designed, but for the absence of, oh, one of those minor aspects of Chinese pronunciation...

Maybe I should make my students in Taiwan watch this Today Show clip. They don't have a clue about pinyin.