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kou3 yu3	hau2 yu5	hau2 jyu5	colloquial speech / spoken language / vernacular language / slander / gossip

Simplified Chinese	Pinyin	Yale	Jyutping	English Definition for Chinese Text
口 Learn more	kou3	hau2	hau2	mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
语 Learn more	yu3	yu5	jyu5	dialect / language / speech

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Simplified	Pinyin	Used for
门	men2	large guns; lessons, subjects, branches of technology

The written language is often far more homogeneous than the spoken.

A corpus of 100 million words of spoken English

These words sound too literary to give them colloquial currency.

Contractions are much more common in speech than in writing.

The writer aerateed his writing with a persuasive colloquialism.

First, we must not simply project the written word on to the spoken word.

Just hark at him! [.

So we're trying to redress the balance and to give teachers a sense that both spoken and written language are equally important.

Beside the difference between speech and writing there is a difference between formality and informality.

They were subtle portraits, sometimes catching exactly the dry New England idiom.

Phonetics:	ni3	nǐ
Tone colors (āáǎàa):	off	on