{"id":68831,"date":"2025-04-11T16:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T21:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=68831"},"modified":"2025-04-11T16:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T21:32:14","slug":"mandarin-disyllabism-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=68831","title":{"rendered":"Mandarin disyllabism for beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Chinese Needs Two Syllable Words\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_zPNb18CphM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">t\u0101 ji\u01ceng d\u00e9 h\u011bn q\u012bngch\u01d4<br \/>\u5979\u8b1b\u5f97\u5f88\u6e05\u695a<br \/><br \/>t\u0101 ji\u01ceng d\u00e9 f\u0113ich\u00e1ng q\u012bngch\u01d4<br \/>\u5979\u8b1b\u5f97\u975e\u5e38\u6e05\u695a<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">t\u0101 ji\u01ceng d\u00e9 t\u00e8bi\u00e9 q\u012bngch\u01d4<br \/>\u5979\u8b1b\u5f97\u7279\u5225\u6e05\u695a<br \/><br \/>t\u0101 ji\u01ceng d\u00e9 sh\u00edf\u0113n q\u012bngch\u01d4<br \/>\u5979\u8b1b\u5f97\u5341\u5206\u6e05\u695a<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">t\u0101 ji\u01ceng d\u00e9 q\u012bngq\u012bngch\u01d4ch\u01d4<br \/>\u5979\u8b1b\u5f97\u6e05\u6e05\u695a\u695a<br \/><br \/>t\u0101 ji\u01ceng d\u00e9 q\u012bngch\u01d4 de b\u00f9d\u00e9li\u01ceo<br \/>\u5979\u8b1b\u5f97\u6e05\u695a\u5f97\u4e0d\u5f97\u4e86<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">t\u0101 ji\u01ceng d\u00e9 b\u00f9n\u00e9ng z\u00e0i q\u012bngch\u01d4le<br \/>\u5979\u8b1b\u5f97\u4e0d\u80fd\u518d\u6e05\u695a\u4e86<br \/>(\"She couldn't have explained it more clearly\"<\/p>\r\n<p>All seven sentences say the same thing, \"She explained it clearly\", with\u00a0various nuances. This is a language learning game I like to play to show how much flexibility there can be in Mandarin expressions.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><b>Selected readings<\/b><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Ask Language Log:  Unnecessary disyllabism?\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=35569\" rel=\"bookmark\">Ask Language Log: Unnecessary disyllabism?<\/a>\" (11\/27\/17)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Ambling, shambling, rambling, wandering, wondering:  the spirit of Master Zhuang \/ Chuang\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=51554\" rel=\"bookmark\">Ambling, shambling, rambling, wandering, wondering: the spirit of Master Zhuang \/ Chuang<\/a>\" (7\/21\/21)<\/li>\r\n<li>Perry Link, <i>An Anatomy of Chinese:\u00a0 Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics<\/i> (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013),<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>[Thanks to John Rohsenow]<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[371,372,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rhythm","category-syllabism","category-variation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68839,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68831\/revisions\/68839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}