Every day I struggle with Chinese pronunciation, admitted, I'm off to a bad start as a native born Scot (strong Ayrshire brogue) who has trouble with "English" (or so they tell me).
Last week I was a little embarrassed when trying to translate my friends name, or at least his family name:
楊 Yang --Mandarin Pinyin: yang2 (Tree: willow, poplar, aspen)
揚 Yang -- Mandarin Pinyin: yang2 (to: scatter, spread, praise)
Take a close look at the Chinese characters .. not a lot of room for mistakes, especially when it was hand written. Naturally I got it wrong .. fortunately another friend corrected me.
Phonetically “Yang” can also be “Lamb” 羊羔 yánggāo
Just an example of the daily pitfalls .. I probably still got something wrong in my explanation.
1 comment:
it took me a year to learn xie xie - it does take time to reach perfection - i m sure u r on the right path........
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