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How do you pronounce "厨房" in Chinese?
choo-FAHNG, both syllables rising. A retroflex with a strong puff of air, then an ordinary f — and two climbs that need separate resets.
chúfáng
Both syllables ascend in succession, unchanged by any rule but physically demanding. The voice has to drop back down between them, which native speakers do so quickly it sounds continuous. Skipping the reset leaves the second syllable level, and the word then sounds like a single long syllable.
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我常常在厨房做饭。
Wǒ chángcháng zài chúfáng zuò fàn.
I often cook in the kitchen.
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我常常在厨房做饭。 stacks four rising tones — cháng, cháng, chú and fáng — with only zài between the pairs. That is four separate climbs, each needing its own downward reset, and it is about as demanding a second-tone sequence as the beginner course contains. Wǒ keeps its dip because cháng rises.
Where English speakers slip
Swallowing the breath on the ch gives zhú. The bigger issue is the double rise: learners produce one long plateau across both syllables rather than two distinct ascents, and in the example sentence that failure compounds across four syllables. Practise dropping the pitch audibly between each climb before speeding it up.