路易斯安那州立大学：汉语语言的音节组成
汉语是单音节语言。每个音节都承受着相同的重音，音调的形状给听者一个唱歌的声音。中国学生花了很多努力来仔细地发每个单词的音。这与单词重音模式相混淆。在英语中，每个单词都由一个或多个音节组成。每个音节大多由一个元音或辅音组成。
路易斯安那州立大学：汉语语言的音节组成
除此之外，还有元音-元音-辅音。然而，在汉语音节中，尾辅音必须以an /n/或/ng/结尾。这些影响了中国学生的发音。因此，他们的学生总是在单词的末尾加上一个元音，通常是辅音后面的一个元音。为了使学生掌握合适的方法，需要开发一种更基于游戏的口语教学法。
路易斯安那州立大学：汉语语言的音节组成
The Chinese language is monosyllabic language. Each syllable is found to receive same amount of stress and the tonal shape gives the listener a sing-song sound. The Chinese students take a lot of effort to pronounce each word carefully. This is confused with the word-stress pattern. In the case of the English, each word is found to be made of one or more syllables. Each syllable mostly consists of a vowel or consonant.
路易斯安那州立大学：汉语语言的音节组成
Apart from this, there is vowel consonant-vowel-consonant . However, in the case of Chinese syllables the end onsonant must only end with an /n/ or /ng/. These influence how the Chinese students pronounce the words. Owing to this, their students invariably end adding a vowel sound to the end of the word that is usually a schwa after the consonant. A more game based colloquial approach needs to be developed in order to teach the students the appropriate method.
