摘要
FOREIGN friends we welcomeyou to China for travel visit,work or study.If you can communicate with the Chinese people in Chinese with the Chinese people in Chinese,your stay in China will be much more convenient and pleasant.In China the standard spoken Chinese is putonghua.Putonghua has more than 400 basic syllables.Generally speaking,one Chinese character represents one syllable.A syllable consists of three parts:the initial,the final and the tone mark For instance,糖táng,t is the initial,ang is the final,and the/indicates it is the second tone.Some syllables are only finals.