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How to Speak Chinese - Learn Chinese Tones | Lingo Bus
How to Speak Chinese – The Chinese Tones Posted on 12/26/2018 by Lingo Bus Spread the Love
When learning a new skill, especially a new language it’s typical to make mistakes. After all how else are we supposed to improve! When I think back to my past embarrassing Chinese language fails one occasion stands above the others. It has to do with Chinese tones! In every speaking class our teacher would make us practice Chinese tones. Our teacher would read out a word or character and we would have to guess what tone she was using. Then she would reverse it and we would have to read words out loud and have our tones corrected. In the class there was a weekly ranking. Through repetition I’d gotten quite good at speaking like a parrot and mimicking words I already knew. However, any new words I learn were problematic for me to speak to at rst. I constantly complained about how useless learning tones were. But had to eat my words. There’s nothing like trying to ask a subway o cer for “How far is the horse riding school?”, only for them to laugh… and call their colleagues over to laugh too! Tones are important!
How to speak Chinese tones? Are there are rules when using tones? https://blog.lingobus.com/learn-chinese/how-to-speak-chinese-tones/
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