Pinyin Beginners Anki Deck

This is the main repository for the Pinyin Beginners Anki Deck. This deck is targeted to those starting to learn Mandarin Chinese and want to know how are "syllables" pronunced. All cards are accompanied with three (randomly selected) recordings of natives pronuncing the syllable.

Download

I recommend you to download this deck from the Ankiweb webpage, or if you are feeling adventurous you can keep reading ;)

"Compile" Deck

If you want to modify this deck to fit your needs, and you want to do it programatically, i.e., you want to modify the Python script generate-deck.py, you will need to install the python libraries genanki and beautifulsoup4:

pip install genanki beautifulsoup4

The script is written in now well supported Python 3 (> 3.6).

Once everything is ready, run the script with:

python3 generate-deck.py

The script generates an Anki deck with name pinyin_deck.apkg in the same folder the script is run. You can install this deck as any other in Anki deck.

Notice that this repository doesn't contain any of the recordings that the deck uses. You will need to download the audios independently from https://www.mediafire.com/?vpbv0m0me7b81zg.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to all the contributors/developers to this Anki deck. Thank you for your time into this small script. It wouldn't be the same functional script it is now without your help. In alphabetic order, thank you to Gianluca Venturini, Mike Lambert and Robin Avery.

Special thanks to anki-persistence for their script to easily retrieve information seen on the front of a card once one has switched to the front.

Thank you to all the people who recorded hundreds of utterances in Chinese. I don't own any of the recordings. All credit for the recordings goes to:

1. http://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/pronunciation/Pinyin_chart
2. https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-pinyin-chart.php
3. http://www.yoyochinese.com/chinese-learning-tools/Mandarin-Chinese-pronunciation-lesson/pinyin-chart-table
4. http://www.archchinese.com/chinese_pinyin.html
5. http://pinpinchinese.com/pinyin-chart/
6. http://public.gettysburg.edu/~jli/PinYinChart/ChinesePinYinChartM.html
7. http://lost-theory.org/chinese/phonetics/
8. http://www.china-on-site.com/language/phonetic/phonetic.htm