Chinese phonetics I have been working on Chinese phonetics for three months. How is it possible that all of people have approximately the same body structure, but use their speech system so different ways. Every sound (even if at first it looks familiarly) should be pronouncing another way, than I'm used to. We even breathe and be silent not the same way! I would never think that the differences are so fundamental. It's so hard, interesting and exciting at the same time.