The rise of Pinyin is like a slow tide, catching the daydreamer unawares.
Joined December 2022
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Which tone combinations are the most and least common in modern Chinese?
(within the 3,000 most common words from TV & movie subs)
Most common word: 4-4 xiànzài 现在
Least common word: 3-0 dǎban 打扮
Play with the words yourself, here 👉 pinyinexplorer.com/exercises…
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I've spent my Sunday morning re-designing the controls of the Mandarin Drill table, specifically for the new pinyin dictation feature... I think it turned out to look quite ok!
Reward: 2nd coffee 😅😁😁😂😇😭
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In school I was never a fan, but now dictation in Pīnyīn is great fun!
Choose a tone combo, stick with it, can't go wrong there. Then it's all about the right letters.
IT'S SUPER SATISFYING to be able to just write down anything we hear in Chinese!! 🎉🥳🍾
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Hi! 👋🙋♂️I haven't received the "educational" shi shi shi poem in almost 24 hours! Are you guys doing alright? Your Pinyin Explorer guy 🫶
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I've added a dictation feature to Pinyin Explorer's Mandarin Tone Grind Grid. I find it really useful myself (this is why I created it). Hope you find it useful, too! Happy listening & writing! ✍️
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I've shown an elementary school teacher that I can write the official Austrian cursive script, which almost no one can. The teacher was appalled and immediately started scolding me (I'm 53yo), “teaching” me that children are not supposed to aim for perfection. 🤦♂️🤡 Your take?
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The new audio player for mobile, on the Pinyin Explorer website ... I find it's so beautiful 💓😇
It's really fun to use AI to write code now. But like with the AZT-48 drug from the movie Limitless: AI works better if you're already a good coder 😅😉
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The default audio player interface on mobile had such small buttons that it was making me crazy, so I wrote my own!
Or let's say, I chuàngzào-ed one with AI 😅😅
I hope this will also be helpful for your shadowing practice on the Pinyin Explorer website. 😇😁
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today's spellchecking and reading exercise - Mandarin Corner transcript (yellow = vocabulary I need to learn)
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Learning Mandarin, I don't want to die on that bloody hill, but I'm not sure if I'm going to make it. There's just too many 3rd tones that sound like 2nd or 4th tones, and too many words to conquer in general. Nothing sticks.
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My latest project in my mission to learn Chinese pronunciation, reading, and speaking. Chinese people will not understand (stuck in the 共识已成答案方法皆定 mindset.) But maybe you as a foreign language learner find it helpful?
Full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=uzNhX5RX…
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I’m sorry, these are probably the most carefully thought-out Mandarin tone drills you’ll find. Carb up or burn out!
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I've spent almost the entire weekend working on the Pinyin Explorer homepage…
+ New, animated button going to Exercises
+ Active indicator in the menu
+ Dozens of layout improvements
Check it out if you have time, and improve your Mandarin tones while you're there ☺️
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Today's Chinese handwriting practice with Pinyin. Getting better and worse 😅
Better at understanding, but worse in handwriting. Once a week is not enough 😭
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Pīnyīn Explorer is an exceptionally well thought out tool to explore the structure of modern Chinese words.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I present you the energy of huāng (荒)!
Mel spectrogram of audio frequency energy over time (0–10 kHz), generated via STFT and Mel filterbank, by Alfons Grabher.
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Boost your Mandarin learning with this goldmine of a story.
Follow an insurance salesman's absurd journey to the end of the world—with full Pīnyīn and English translation.
Real, original Chinese literature. Not a graded reader.
🫵👉 pinyinexplorer.com/exercises…
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