Tones

Mandarin Chinese has four pitched tones and a "toneless" tone. the Chinese language has very few possible syllables -- approximately while English has about 12,000. There are more homophonic words, words with the same sound expressing different meanings. Tones help the relatively small number of syllables to multiply Learning Chinese in context is also very important.

1 st – hign and level 2 nd – starts medium in tone, then rises to the top 3 rd – starts low, dips to the bottom, then rises toward top 4 th – starts at the top, then falls sharp and strong to the bottom

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Neutral Tone Some syllables in Chinese Tones are pronounced weakly, like unstressed syllables in English. If there is no tone mark over the vowel, it means it is a neutral tone.

Neutral tones are used in the following cases Particles are always in neutral tone, such as 了 (le), 的 (de) The second syllable in some compound words is sometimes toneless: for example, 我们 (wǒ men ) (we or us) A second half of a reduplicated word is often in neutral tone: for example, 妈妈 ( mā ma ) ( mother ), 爸爸 ( bà ba ) ( father ) The measure word 个 ( gè ) when it is not emphasized: for example, 三个月 (sān ge yuè ) ( three months)

Practice Tones

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