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hello everyone welcome and welcome back to my channel this is your teacher savannah who's here to help you connect to chinese language and culture welcome to day three of seven days to master chinese opinion to start learning chinese we usually start from learning pinyin because pinyin is a useful tool we use to help us learn the pronunciation of chinese characters in this video we're gonna learn all the initials in chinese pinyin if you haven't checked out our day 1 and day 2 videos please do so and come back to learn the initials alright grab your pen and notebook let's get started in chinese opinion we have 21 initials i'm going to quickly go over part of the initials that are pronounced similarly to english and then i'm going to talk about how to pronounce those tricky ones that are quite different from english these initials are pronounced very similar to english let's pronounce together poor more more for for remember this our ultimate goal is to be able to pronounce chinese syllables with initials and finals and tones since we only talked about one of the simple finals ah in the last video let's practice using these initials and ba la easy right all right so let's move on to the tricky ones j q x letter j in chinese pinyin is pronounced as pronounced as letter x is pronounced as shi shi shi a lot of people pronounce these three as d t c with the c sound in it so remember there's no su sound in another typical era is to pronounce them as g chi shi it's easy to fix it let's focus on a lip movement to pronounce she we need to move her lips she but to pronounce d t c there's no lip movement d we call this group curling tong pronunciation when we pronounce these four initials we need to curl the tip of our tongue to our upper palate a little bit for z h it's similar to j in george but we don't curl our tongue when we pronounce george to pronounce jh correctly in chinese we can start from george and curl the tip of her tongue a little bit to our upper palate you can actually hear me curl my tongue a little bit for c h for sh is like sh sound in english with curling tongue sure sure sure for our sound is for er sound my tip for you it sounds like the ending sound of all right let's move on to the next group this group is usually referred to as flat tongue pronunciation completely opposite to the curling tone pronunciation in this group we have for letter z pronounced as is like the d s sound z in yars and you can hear that my tongue is not curling up like ger but for is flat tongue okay for letter c it sounds like tsu in next one letter...