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1.4: Self-Assess Your Understanding of Pinyin

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    In the sections above, you learned the different sounds of Chinese and practiced speaking them while listening, using the Pitch Perfect Pinyin (PPP) website.  Optionally, this week you may like to self-assess your mastery of the sounds of Chinese.  There are five different interactive exercises to complete during this brief self-assessment:

    Although these self-assessment exercises are not graded, I encourage you to complete one full attempt for all five of them by the end of the second week of class.  The more time you spend on these, the easier it will be to learn vocabulary and example sentences later on in the semester.

    You can also revisit and review these interactive exercises later in the semester, especially when preparing for the oral midterm and final exams.

    Depending on your level of prior experience with Mandarin, you might find the PPP exercise pages either too difficult or too easy.  My suggestion is that you should spend just enough time with PPP to have a general idea of how things work for pinyin, not necessarily to be scoring 100% (or even say 75%) on each of the various assessments above. 

    Remember that these PPP self-assessments are not graded.  If you continue to find them difficult, even after reviewing them for an hour or two, just move on to review other aspects of the course.


    This page titled 1.4: Self-Assess Your Understanding of Pinyin is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Carl Polley (裴凯).

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