Laowai Chinese 老外中文

Master the Tones

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

To really speak Chinese, you have to master the tones. But, most laowai don't.It's a good idea to learn the tones as you are learning vocabulary. The problem with learning Chinese vocab is there are really two things to remember for each word: the sounds (phonemes...I don't know how to say "phonemes" ...

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Tone Wars

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

It's not that we don't have tones in English. No. The tones are hard because English has tones, but we use tone for different reasons. In English our tones are usually applied to the whole sentence but can also occur on only one word. We use tone to show emotion, attitude, ...

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