Analysis Of Chinese Phonetic Errors Made By Russian Students

Russia, China’s friendly neighbor, has more and more government and civilianeconomic and cultural communication with China year by year. Russia is facing anurgent demand of excellent talents who masters Chinese language. Therefore,grasping Chinese language has also become one important job hunting advantage forRussian young men.Chinese affiliates to Sino-Tibetan language system, while Russian belongs to theIndo-European Slavic language family. There is great difference in these twolanguages especially in phonetics. The author works at Jiamusi University, located inthe border between China and Russia, with large quantities of Chinese learners fromRussia, they often appear a few universal and regular phonetic errors, some errorsappear in the initial stage of learning, and some speech errors appear throughout thelearners’ second language acquisition process. Studying on how to make studentsmaster Russian clear accurate pronunciation in Chinese, with real speech andcommunication has certain theoretical significance. At the same time, it also help toimprove Russian foreign students Chinese phonetic appearance, solve on Russia’sforeign students Chinese phonetic teaching problems and improve the level ofteaching Chinese as a foreign language in border areas.This paper mainly use intermediary and theory and the second languageacquisition theory as the foundation, apply the methods like, the language contrastanalysis, errors analysis. Through the questionnaire among20beginner, junior, andsenior stages of Russian students in the field of Chinese phonetic sampling,summarized students’ errors characteristics respectively from the initials, rhymes,tones, etc, and analyzed in terms of phonetic errors reasons from the negative transferof mother tongue and the target language knowledge, teaching factors, individual differences. Finally, the author expounded the Russian foreign students’ Chinesephonetic teaching countermeasure, and hoped to be able to inspire the phoneticteaching in the future.