Pinyin Lesson 9 – Compound Finals and Nasal Finals Group 1&2
Chinese Pinyin Compound Finals and Nasal Finals
ai ei ao ou – an en ang eng ong
From this lesson we will start to talk about Chinese Pinyin Compound Finals and Nasal Finals. There are a lot of them,so we break them in to 6 different groups to practice. Also because there could be more than one vowel in Chinese Pinyin Compound Finals or Nasal Finals, it is very important to know on which vowel we will put the tonal marker on. This is a very important Pinyin order rule. So let’s watch this video, practice the pronunciations and finish the Pinyin Finals quiz!
LESSON INFO
KEYWORDS
- Chinese Pinyin Compound Finals
- ai
- ei
- ao
- ou
- Chinese Pinyin Nasal Finals
- an
- en
- ang
- eng
- ong
LESSON NOTES
Chinese Pinyin Compound Finals and Nasal Finals
In a Compound Final, one Main Vowel, and one or two Secondary Vowels. In a Nasal Final, there’s one Vowel, and a Nasal Consonant attached after the Vowel.
Chinese Pinyin Compound Finals
ai ei ao ou. In the four of them, the Vowel at the beginning: a-, e-, a-, o- is the Main Vowel, while the Vowel at the end: -i, -i, -o, -u is the Secondary Vowel.
The pronunciation is not simply putting "a+i" together. The Main Vowel sounds more clear and more standard, while the Secondary Vowel sounds not as standard as their original pronunciation. The Secondary Vowel compensates and adjusts itself because the tongue(or jaw) position is affected by the Main Vowel's tongue(or jaw) position.
Chinese Pinyin Nasal Finals
an en ang eng ong
How do I know if someone is trying to say a word that ends with “an” or “ang”?
Hi . I cant hear a differences between a and e in ch(a)en she(a)n. and a finals n and ng absolutely the same
hello, im finding a bit difficult to pronounce the difference between ang, eng, an and en
thank you very much in advance
Hi, I am struggling to hear the difference between eng and ang. They both sound like ung to me. Help?
Hello! In lesson 4 it was explained that “k” can be used as “ka” “ke” “ku”, but here you use “kou” when using examples of “ou”, which starts with an “o”. Is there any explanation for that? I’m getting a bit confused. Thanks!
Please treat o and ou as two independent finals.
Having difficulty in listening to gan gen kan ken etc
Having trouble distinguishing n and ng when doing the practice quiz any tips?
Apart from what was taught in the video, is there any other tip for differentiating between -n and -ng? I still can’t notice the difference in words like zeng and zen or zang and zan. For context, I am basing myself on the pronunciation from the quiz.
if you can give short audio of each finals … it would be nice to practice and we dont have to go threw whole video. Thank you
It’s a great idea to include the audios. We’ll definitely add it to our to-do-list. Thank you for the suggestion!
Would be handy! I wonder if it got to your to do list?
Hi is it still a work in progress ?
It sounds to me as if the -n actually closes off air from leaving the mouth like a true consonant, but -ng seems to not completely close off air from leaving the mouth, so that is sort of a nasal vowel and it makes a diphthong with the previous vowel. Am I hearing something that is not really there at all? 🙂