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| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 6148 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes  | Message 33 of 37 25 August 2008 at 7:57am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm a native speaker of Chinese and personally I don't give a damn about Beizhing or Bei Jing. The actual consonant in Chinese is not either of those; there are no voiced consonants in standard Mandarin anyway. It is more like ち in Japanese.
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| joan.carles Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6333 days ago 332 posts - 342 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan*, French, EnglishC1, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Hungarian, Russian, Georgian | Message 34 of 37 25 August 2008 at 4:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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I remember that back in 92, when there were the olympiads in Barcelona, some Spanish newspapers talked about the same thing, in particular on how the Germans pronounced Barcelona with /dz/ (Bardzelona) instead of with /th/ (Barthelona, as in theater). And I thought, let them pronounce it as they want, it's just a foreign name for them. Even Mallorca is.
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 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6894 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 35 of 37 02 September 2008 at 8:50am | IP Logged | ||
m, n, l and r are voiced (r could perhaps be considered a vowel though). Edited by Hencke on 02 September 2008 at 9:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 6148 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes | Message 36 of 37 02 September 2008 at 12:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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My bad, voiced obstruents, if you're going to get so humpty about it.
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| Korven Kuningas Newbie England Joined 5930 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Faroese | Message 37 of 37 03 September 2008 at 5:56am | IP Logged | ||
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I swear the BBC reporters got some kind of training with Chinese names as they were pronouncing them much better than you would expect.
...except in the diving, where they pronounced "Zhou" as "Zhoo" lol 1 person has voted this message useful |
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