A Beginner's Guide to Taiwanese: Difference between revisions

A Beginner's Guide to Taiwanese (view source)

Revision as of 10:22, 27 February 2019

117 bytes removed , 10:22, 27 February 2019

→‎Review the finals: Taiwanese7Tones.pdf

LearnTaiwanese

45,221

edits

@@ Line 214: / Line 214: @@
 The ending letter tells both consonant and pitch. The high short tones end with ''h'' ({{w|glottal stop}}), ''p'', ''t'' and ''k'', which are stops sounding similar to how they're used as an initial consonant. The low short tones end with ''q'', ''b'', ''d'', and ''g'', which are the same stops, respectively.
-=== Review the finals ===
+=== Review all the tones ===
-What happens when you put a vowel and tone together? You get a "final", the rear part of the syllable, everything but the initial consonant. It uniquely spells out the vowel, tone, and any consonant endings.
+What happens when you put a vowel and tone together? You get a "[[Table of all finals in MTL|final]]", the rear part of the syllable, everything but the initial consonant. It uniquely spells out the vowel, tone, and any consonant endings.
-Take a look at the first page of this [[:File:Abridged table of finals of Taiwanese in MTL.pdf|chart of MTL finals]] and see how many finals you can read. Ignoring the tones and the ''v'', there are only about 32 commonly-used finals. On the second page, there are another 12 ''v''-nasalized vowels. Once you can read these two pages, any syllable you see will just boil down to a final either with or without a consonant in front.
+Take a look at [[:File:Taiwanese7Tones.pdf|this chart]] and see how much you can now read. Ignoring the tones, there are only about 30 commonly-used finals. After you know this chart, any syllable you see will just boil down to a final either with or without a consonant in front.
 If you noticed a few finals that are spelled a little differently from what we taught so far, we will explain those next.