Chinyu//Cynthia, you made me laugh!! I can so relate to the foreigners getting crazy by learning Chinese! You are very brave, keep up the good work!

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I think you have feelings and I was learning English is almost a feeling, although there are difficulties, as long as efforts to uphold, will be successful

I speak spanish and there is the same problem with some letters (r,rr,ñ) when I have to explain it to chinese people. I think the first thing you must note is that the other people never in his life had listen this sounds, and there is no similar sounds in his native language. I belive is not possible to teach this special sounds using the others that the learner knows. You (and me in the case of r, rr,ñ) make this problematic sounds automatically, and I think this is the root of the problem. Can you try to explain me in a written form how you make the zh sound ? the z? If you think for a while, you can explain how the tongue is used in this sounds (in z is very different that in the zh), the shape of the mouth, how the air is used, etc. All details are important, because the other people have no other reference. After you make this explanation, you can say them simple examples. Then you can listen the same words from the students and try to discover why they are not making the sounds in the proper way. If they can't make the sounds is because you miss a really important detail that is obvious for you. Hope this help you. Zaijian

You may try to use Skype or other messengers which is good in voice... Then you can let them learn some hard pronouciation by listen to yours in voice. Also, you need to focus on some Pin Yin which you can not find the counterpart in English phonetic symbol....etc Both the teacher and the learner should be patient, of course! Practice makes perfect!