Talk:Chinese Phonetics/@comment-30602727-20150207200126

My god, I've been sent a long butt message from Rain. .w.

"AHA! I FOUND SOMETHING LEGIT ON FB (at least there is still 0.01% of non-weaboo fandom) These are written by the tuner for Xinhua's demos, regarding Taiwan CHN vs Mainland CHN

Taiwanese accent also had retroflex articulations (see wikipedia), but the way Taiwanese does it is different from a Mainland Chinese. XinHua's VP is a Taiwanese, so there isn't a problem with the pronunciation, only the voicetype (he/she was referring to people who may or may not like XinHua's voicetype)

Obviously, Taiwanese think XinHua is a bit too retroflex articulated, Mainland Chinese think XinHua is not retroflex articulated.

Also he/she mentioned certain Taiwanese do not follow the usual 'retroflex articulation' pronunciation, hence I'll make a list of them (Taiwanese follow the second one)

zh x z ch x c sh x s

Below are more of same pinyin but different pronunciation

en ('uhn' X 'ahn') an/ang ('ahn' and 'ahng' X 'ahn') er ('uhr' X 'uh')"