Alright, how do you pronounce Cochin?

[chook-in-eire]

I found a sound file once on a breed association website (sorry can't remember where) and the pronunciation, which was said to be the original Chinese, was kind of hard and fast, almost like a sneeze

. The co- was pronounced like the co in college, the chin like the part of your face. The emphasis was on the first syllable.

HTH
chook

 

[SGM]

Bookmark the dictionary. Makes pronunciation much easier. I LOVE it. Here's Cochin...
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cochin

 

[LilPeeps]

I pronounce it as ko-chin.

 

[NYREDS]

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What a concept-actually looking something up & giving a factual response! Hope it catches on everywhere!!!

 

[speckledhen]

Here's the one I use, has several speakers, both male and female and several languages as well.
http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

 

[Vcomb]

i hear it two ways around here : ko-chin and ko-chen. course it seems in nebraska e's and i's get substituted for one another frequently, as do t's and d's.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

See, the problem here is that you have chosen the wrong breed. If you had Buff Orpingtons, Barred Rocks or Rhode Island Reds, you wouldn't have to post a thread like this.

Of course, if you can't resist the fluffy leg syndrome, you could always trade in your Coach-ins for Brahmas (rhymes with Mama).

(I have no idea how to pronounce the word, but the Chinese origin and pronunciation seem logical.)

 

[joebryant]

If it helps to add to the confusion, I looked in four different Chinese dictionaries and could not find any listing for the Chinese Pinyen syllables for kou qin under any of the Mandarin four tones. All I know is that jia(1)qin(2) is poulty. 家禽

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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I didn't know that Robert Redford was a Chinese language expert!

 

[joebryant]

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I didn't know that Robert Redford was a Chinese language expert!

Anne and I went to school and taught in China and Singapore. The Freedom Foundation sent us to China last summer to help Chinese English teachers to prepare their students to be translators at the Beijing Olympics. We hadn't spoken Chinese for ten years and had forgotten a lot, almost all of the characters. All I can say is that it's a good thing that our students spoke better English than we did Chinese.