Abstract: The study records Indian students' spoken Chinese with Chinese Phonetic System as the recording material, and finds out
the errors of initials, finals and tones that Indian students made by the tagging analysis. Then, questionnaire surveys and interviews are
conducted among teachers and students to explore the causes of Chinese phonetic errors of Indian students, and solutions are proposed.
It is found that Indian students' Chinese phonetic errors share some similarities and some obvious differences with their counterparts
from Thailand in the same latitude. One of the prominent reasons for these errors is the negative transfer from Indian multi-lingual
environment.

Key words: Indian students, Chinese as a foreign language, phonetic errors, MBBS, empirical research