"这个词典应用很好。"
Translation:This dictionary app is good.
January 12, 2018
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hippietrail
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Mandarin speakers can't pronounce hard consonants at the end of syllables. (Though many other Chinese languages/dialects do have final consonants besides n, and ng.) Mandarin also doesn't have the short a sound. Younger Chinese who've studied English don't seem to have this problem but use the same pronunciation as everyone else. All the English abbreviations and acronyms I've noticed in China avoid syllables ending in hard consonants. APP, DIY, KTV, CD, DVD...
Sunrise
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I always find the A-P-P thing hilarious. I hear it all the time these days, especially in commercials.
hippietrail
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Not App but APP. It's pronounced as the names of the three letters, not as a single word as in English, and it's spelled to reflect that pronunciation.