It's constantly correcting, yet there's no way to explain the reason, or why pronunciation must be this way. People have been pronouncing it like this since childhood, and when you suddenly stand up and say the word should be different, there are bound to be quite a few voices of doubt!
With so many corrections and doubts, she just pretended not to notice. Otherwise, she would spend the whole class arguing over these tones.
So, before there were Pinyin letters, how did we learn pronunciation?
Actually, we used either direct phonetics or fanqie methods to annotate the pronunciation of Chinese characters.
The so-called direct phonetics is using homophones to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters. If the homophones are rare characters, even with the pronunciation noted, they cannot be pronounced correctly.
