A Brief Study of the Negative Transfer of the Romanian Native Language to Chinese Phonetic Acquisition

Abstract With the development of Chinese teaching in Romania, Chinese phonetic acquisition, as the foundation of further study, demands more research in teaching concepts and methods in digitalized generation for the traditional and emergent phonetics teaching challenges among teachers and students. Through the questionnaire and interview study, as well as the contrastive study of the Romanian and Chinese phonetic characteristics, this article demonstrates the negative transfer of Romanian in Chinese phonetic acquisition in the aspects of syllable tone, sentence intonation, initial and final consonants, and retroflex final. The acoustic software Praat visualizes the negative transfer of the native language in Chinese intonation. The suggestions are based on the findings, including the pronunciation correcting orientation and communication practice orientation curriculum, the long-term training of tone perception establishment, and the optimized teaching orders, which are explained for improving Chinese phonetic teaching in Romania.