{"id":5952,"date":"2026-03-13T13:21:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/2026\/03\/13\/inquiry-3\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:21:38","slug":"inquiry-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/2026\/03\/13\/inquiry-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Inquiry #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am very slowly learning new words, and as I learn, I am trying to develop good pronunciations.<\/p>\n<p>Hear is me saying \u201cHello\u201d in Mandarin (N\u01d0 h\u01ceo \/ \u4f60\u597d).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/nathanclark.opened.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10111\/2026\/03\/Movie-on-2026-03-12-at-7.43%E2%80%AFPM-2.mov\" preload=\"none\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s me saying \u201cGoodbye\u201d in Mandarin (Z\u00e0iji\u00e0n \/ \u518d\u89c1).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/nathanclark.opened.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10111\/2026\/03\/Movie-on-2026-03-12-at-7.46%E2%80%AFPM.mov\" preload=\"none\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>There are four main tones in Mandarin Chinese: <\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>High tone<\/li>\n<li>Rising tone<\/li>\n<li>Low tone<\/li>\n<li>Falling tone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Here is a short video explaining how to pronounce these tones.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Next post, I will posting more videos of me pronouncing words and phrases that I have learned.<\/p>\n<p>\u518d\u89c1 !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very slowly learning new words, and as I learn, I am trying to develop good pronunciations. Hear is me saying \u201cHello\u201d in Mandarin (N\u01d0 h\u01ceo \/ \u4f60\u597d). Here\u2019s me saying \u201cGoodbye\u201d in Mandarin (Z\u00e0iji\u00e0n \/ \u518d\u89c1). There are&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/2026\/03\/13\/inquiry-3\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}