Songle Bao

Hi, my name is Songle Bao. I come from China, and I am a student at Jilin University, which is a giant university in China. I major in physics in college, and I am interested both science and computer. But in this blog, I'm going to do something different.

I will be introduce you the Chinese language in this blog. The reason I choose to do this is that I am now in America, and I feel awkward every time when people ask about my name. You have seen my name already. How would you pronounce it? I bet you would pronounce like /sɒŋɡl/ if you don't know Chinese. But actually, it should be pronounced like /sɒŋ'lə/. Every time I am in a store or in an office when they ask my name, I would think if I just tell them my name is /sɒŋ'lə/, they would ask me how to spell it. So I would say "my name is S-O-N-G-L-E". Therefore in this blog, I want to introduce some basic idea about Chinese language to them who has never studied it. You can consider this as your first course in Chinese and I would try to make it as easy as possible. The primary goal is that you can know the phonetic symbol of Chinese after reading my blog. Then you can pronounce Chinese name correctly. So I will just call it Chinese101.

I hope you will enjoy it.