Canotonese spoken person trying to learn to speak Mandarin and Pinyin
Hello All,

Thanks for the tips. I have a special need and hope you can help.

I am already very familiar with most of the Chinese characters. I lived in Hong Kong for 16 years. However, I do not pinyin. Coming from Hong Kong, we know Cantonese and know how to pronounce in Cantonese tone. The challenge I have is, I would look at the Chinese characters and then automatically try to use the Cantonese tone to pronounce it as Mandarin sound. My current goal now is to 1) learn pinyin (so I can type faster, I currently write stroke on computers and phones) and 2) speak better and more accurate Mandarin.

Are there any learning resource that you would recommend someone like myself?

Are there any learning approach that you would recommend? For ex., I am currently reading a document that has the most common 3500 Chinese words with Pinyin and trying to memorize it. I have found it very useful.

Thanks you.

Yu

Question

Canotonese spoken person trying to learn to speak Mandarin and Pinyin
Hello All,

Thanks for the tips.  I have a special need and hope you can help.

I am already very familiar with most of the Chinese characters.  I lived in Hong Kong for 16 years.  However, I do not pinyin.  Coming from Hong Kong, we know Cantonese and know how to pronounce in Cantonese tone.  The challenge I have is, I would look at the Chinese characters and then automatically try to use the Cantonese tone to pronounce it as Mandarin sound.  My current goal now is to 1) learn pinyin (so I can type faster, I currently write stroke on computers and phones) and  2) speak better and more accurate Mandarin.

Are there any learning resource that you would recommend someone like myself?

Are there any learning approach that you would recommend?  For ex., I am currently reading a document that has the most common 3500 Chinese words with Pinyin and trying to memorize it. I have found it very useful.

Thanks you.

Yu

Answer

Firstly, what I want to tell you is that chinese (putonghua / Mandarin) is totally different from Canotonese. So, you can not understand PuTongHua just through the the sound or the words you see. I suggest you can load some movies with two sound and two caption ( Mandarin and Canotonese) watch the movie twice and try to compare them, then u will know which word in Canotonese is which word in Mandarin . What is more ,you have to find a guy to talk with you , in  my view, it can help you differ the languages and correct …………

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