The difficulty as a westener with chinese is the pronounciation of the words.
There is apparently no common ground.

Of late I've been reading a lot about Zhan Zhuang. As long as I stick to reading there is no problem. It starts when you want to talk about it. Autors have tried to describe the pronounciation and I came across

Sam Song
Jan Jong
Jam Jong
& Dzjan Dzjoeng

I would like to know if any of them make sense or are the better descriptions.

Sam Song
Jan Jong
Jam Jong
& Dzjan Dzjoeng

can not understand

He's asking for a phonetic gude to how to pronounce Zhan Zhuang.

Maybe if you give us some description as to what you are implying, we can help

I think is clear crazy monk is talking about pronunciation.

Firstly there is no one spoken Chinese language. Mandarin is used as the common and national language in the PRC and ROC respectively. So I will attempt to give you the pronunciation in this language.

Chinese language are tonal, but I suspect the tones aren' too important to you at this point. I have done an audio recording for you. If you ignore the tones, it is roughly accurate.


Never tried this with the forum interface before, let's hope it works:
http://odeo.com/show/3730913/1187930/download.mp3

Unfortunately I keep getting a 404 error on the download link. That's a shame because I very much would have liked to hear it.
When I talk to my friends and want to tell them what it is that I'm doing so early in the morning I have to give them vage descriptions instead of telling them what it is with the correct name.
I think I will read some about chinese laguages her on the forum.
I'm gonna try and find a way how I can download your file, but thanx anyway.

Hi,

I think the problem was because Odeo (where I recorded and stored it) only allows the piece to be played through its odeo player, which I can't get to work in the thread here.

I have created a blog and placed the Odeo recording there. I have tested it and it should work now. Please let me know if it works for you. You may PM me if you prefer.

Cheers,

Ur

http://chinesehistory.blogspot.com/2006/12/zhan-zhuang.html

If you dont get to hear the recording please me patient; it seems Blogger classified me a a spammer. I have written to them to should be cleared up soon.

Cheers

now, now, this is serious, our Ur, a spammer? That is dreadful, tell them that you are our Grand Historian and definitely valued member of this forum and we take serious exceptions that they should think you are a 'spammer'. Ha, spammer, indeed! tsk tsk tsk.