How to pronounce the word that start with "C" in Chinese Mandarin?

Question

This question is not about the tones. It is about how do you pronounce the word that starts with a "C".

脆 Cuì
碎 Suì

猜 Cāi
腮 Sāi

Above pair of words sound so familiar but I could hear the difference. I don't know whether I repeat it after correctly or not. I have no teacher to hear me out when I repeat it after. So when I pronounce each word that start with a "C" like following, I pronounce it like it starts with the "Ts".

脆 Cuì = Tsuì (my pronunciation)
猜 Cāi = Tsāi (my pronunciation)
藏 Cáng = Tsáng (my pronunciation)
从 Cóng = Tsóng (my pronunciation)

Is that correct?

Answer 1

Should be correct. As a native Chinese speaker, I'm using my Chinese 'C' to pronounce the 'ts' in English. So I think the other way around should be fine too.

Answer 2

Yeah , ts is a good approximation.

Of course ts only really occurs at the end of words in English

Read the following out loud:

Bits way

Bits way

Bits way

( again without the Bi )

ts way

ts way

ts way

cui

:)