The Phonetic Errors in initial of Thai students in Learning Chinese

Today, we focus on the consonants problems of the Thai students in learning Chinese and put forward some specific solutions.
The Chinese language in Thailand has got more and more wide application in all walks of life. learning Chinese language has been clearly affirmed and vigorously promoted by the Thai government. more and more people are learning Chinese in Thailand now. However, when Thai people speak Chinese, they form a kind of different pronunciation features, which is influenced by the mother language. Today, we will learn the difference between Chinese and Thai, then to analysis the errors.

1. The Chinese and Thai consonants comparison

(A)The same sounds (Chinese has, Thai has, 14)

(B)The different sounds (Chinese has, Thai doesn’t have, 8)

2. The errors of initial

（A）Pronounce the Chinese voiceless into voiced. Pronounce b[p] into [b]; d [t] into [d]. eg. pronounce大家dà jiā[tĄ4 tɕiĄ 1]into[dĄ4 tɕiĄ 1]; 青岛 qīng dǎo [tɕʻ iŋ1 tɑu3 ] into [tɕʻ iŋ1 dɑu3 ].
(B)pronounce the aspirated sounds into unaspirated sounds. Such as pronounce p [pʻ]/t [tʻ]/k [kʻ] into b [p] /d [t] /g [k].
(C)confuse H [x] with the plosive , which share the articulation place. Pronounce H [x] into g [k]. eg. 快kuài [kʻ uai4] into 坏huài [x uai4]；困难 kùn nán [kʻ uən4 nan2] into [xuən4 nan2].
（D）confuse retroflex with palatal and alveolar. Pronounce zh/ch/sh/r into palatal j/q and alveolar z/s.

3．The initial learning strategies

（A）To solve read voiceless into voiced, such as b[p] and d [t] were read into [b] and [d], we only need to know that Thai language also have voiceless [p] and [t], but just to use the letter P and t to represent them.
(B) For read aspirated into unaspirated sound problems, such as pronounce P, t, K into unaspirated sound, we need to know that because of two language share the same pronunciation by different Latin letters. In fact, these sounds exist in two languages, as long as we remember the actual pronunciations of Chinese pinyin in the Latin alphabet, we will be easy to master them.
(C) The error of read h [x] into [k] can be corrected with [k]. The specific approach is to start with [k], and then to keep pronunciation position unchanged, then let the tongue down slightly, finally we can pronounce h [x] correctly. But the tongue can not leave the soft palate too far, otherwise we will get [h].
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