Chinese Without a Teacher

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Excerpt from Chinese Without a Teacher: Being a Collection of Easy and Useful Sentences in the Mandarin Dialect, With a VocabularyThe following Lessons and Vocabulary are intended to assist those who Wish to acquire quickly a temporary or superficial knowledge of the Chinese language as spoken in the northern provinces, and by educated people all over the Empire.The orthography, if such it may be called, is an attempt to express, so far as possible, Chinese sounds in simple English.The Chinese vowel-sound a is the only one which cannot be even approximately expressed, and the reader is therefore requested to pronounce it like the French u, or the German u.With regard to words like shirt or sir, pronounce exactly as in English, stopping short at the romanised letters, z'.e. Not sounding them and observe that, were it not for those roman ised letters, si would be pronounced sigh, and ski, shy. Thus lei is to be pronounced as the id in kine, kwi as the qui in quite.So, whenever a occurs, followed by It, or by it and other letters, the sound must be always that of the exclamation ah!Remember, too, that as ow is pronounced throughout as in the words how and now, show must be read in the same manner, and not sho, which sound is already provided for.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.