how to you pronounce Ruyan
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I speak Chinese, so maybe I can help you on this one.. Ru sounds like the roo from Kangaroo. Yan sounds like it looks Y + an (as in AN orange). or if you squish these two English words together you'll get the proper pronounciation of yan: saY-ANother.
Chinese has tones, the ru goes up, and the yan is a high tone, but that is really hard to describe, and probably more info than you wanted anyway.
. I think the Chinese is actually WuYan.無煙 Which means "without smoke", or at least, that's what it sounded like to me when I heard a Chinese person talking about a personal vaporizer. Ru is also a Chinese character, but I can't see what connection it has to Yan 煙 "smoke".
Chinese has tones, the ru goes up, and the yan is a high tone, but that is really hard to describe, and probably more info than you wanted anyway.
. I think the Chinese is actually WuYan.無煙 Which means "without smoke", or at least, that's what it sounded like to me when I heard a Chinese person talking about a personal vaporizer. Ru is also a Chinese character, but I can't see what connection it has to Yan 煙 "smoke".
like = 如 ru or roo. smoke = 烟 yan. So I guess it wasn't a mistranslation. Writing Chinese using English Characters is called PinYin. Quite often companies will choose easy PinYin characters inplace of ones that might be difficult for western people to pronounce. But, in this case, the PinYin they chose is the direct translation.
Gary
我也很喜歡喝啤酒也用如煙。就是在就把的時候要用我的如煙！
haha. Nice to be able to use my Chinese. I tought English in China & Taiwan for almost 7 years. I just moved back to Canada 2 months ago. Finally finishing my linguistics degree. Then, back to Asia for me!
Gary
u taught English? 8-o
this is what my text to speech sw converted for me: pronounced Roo yen
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dude.... i cannot even read simplified anymore...i know..its a shame... 3 years at chinese american international school., im pretty sure you've heard of it., lol., Ni Hao LAOSHI!!!
thanks I knew it would get a lot of response I was saying Ryan like the name and believed it was Roo-Yan
烟 [yān] not yen. electronic translators are very inaccurate in my experience. If you use a dictionary to enter 烟, it should show up as [yān]. The line above the a means it is a high tone, so it is spoken with a higher pitch than the ru before it. When you say ru, you should sound like you are asking a question, because it is an upword tone: 如 [rú]
@Nico, Where was the Chinese American School? Beijing? I spent my time between 3 cities, ChengDu Sichuan, Dalain Lioning, and finally Taipei, Taiwan. The past 4 years have all been in Taiwan. I'll probably be heading back there to do a masters degree once I finish off my studies in Canada. It's a fun city to live in. Relatively inexpensive, and always fun stuff to do. Polution is pretty bad though. Damn scooters barfing out black garbage.
Gary
Rouge: The fact that you heard YEN, and not YAN is because of varience in dialects. "e" and "a" seem quite interchangeable. In Northern China, both the vowels e and a seem to melt together into "e". I lived mostly in the South & tropical regions, and the two vowels remained clearly distinct. Chances are your text to speech program has a Beijing speaker. It is kind of like the differences between American and British speakers of English. Our vowels differ.
Strangely enough, for the longest time, my dyslexic ... called it RuNyan... lol
I did that too! Then I looked a little closer and said "Oh wait...".
toe-may-toe
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just as long as people know what you're talking about right?
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aunt
just as long as people know what you're talking about right?
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