‘SH'

[Xiaoyong Huang]

Hi. I have been confused about one consonant-SH recently. Do I pronounce it right? I hope a native can help me. Thanks in advance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPHk19dQuyk&feature=youtu.be

 

[GoesStation]

That's right. I believe it's the same sound as an X makes in pinyin.

 

[Xiaoyong Huang]

That's right. I believe it's the same sound as an X makes in pinyin.

Thank you for spending time with me. :-DMy teacher once told me that X in Chinese was a little similar to the 'SH' in English. I couldn't replace the 'SH' with X. The mouth shape was very different.

 

[Roman55]

It's not bad, but not quite right in my opinion. It's all a question of tongue position. English speakers learning Mandarin Chinese encounter the same difficulty, but the other way round obviously. The pinyin X is not the English SH.
The overall pronunciation is good, so just clean up the SH which sounds like there's too much air being pushed out.

 

[bubbha]

sh in English is like sh in Chinese "Shanghai", but without the tongue curling. English sh is about halfway between Chinese x and sh.

Chinese x is like the ch in German ich, a palatal sibilant.
Chinese sh is like the Polish sz sound, a retroflex sibilant.

 

[Tdol]

You're OK on the sound in individual words. Try recording a sentence or two with the sound in connected speech, and please don't read aloud as that ruins intonation. It would be interesting to hear you use the sound in context.