[LM_NET] HIT: Lon Po Po..How do you pronounce these names?

[Ann Wonderly <awonderly@DCBE.ORG>]

Thank you for your answers!  I had several requests for a HIT.

On Feb 1, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Ann Wonderly wrote:

 I am going to read Lon Po Po but I want to make sure I am pronouncing 
 the names of the children correctly.  Can anyone help me?  The names 
 are Shang, Tao, and Paotze.

 Responses:

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Do you know that the title is pronounced Lon Paw Paw?  At least that's 
what my Chinese students tell me.  But I don't know how to pronounce the 
names!  I should ask my kids.

Anne Alatalo
Library Media Specialist
Canton, MI

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I think I know the first 2, but am unfamiliar with the 3rd.

The first is Shang should rhyme with Tang (the orange drink).  It 
should have an long A sound very round and open.

Tao - The proper Chinese prounciation is that the T is a soft sound 
closer to the English D.  The A/O is a dipthong AH/ow.  It starts with 
the Ah sound and ends with Oh, So "Dao" should rhyme with "OW" (like 
you say when something hurts).

I think - this is just a guess the last is would be said something 
like: Paw-say.  I think the tze sounds like "say".

Good luck (I see that you are from TN, and I'm laughing imagining you 
saying these with a "Southern" accent.  :  )

Katherine Martinez
Northerner, that spent time in MO, & now lives in IN


Ann Wonderly
Librarian
White Bluff Elementary School
White Bluff, TN
awonderly@dcbe.org

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