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Tuesday 8 April 2014

Chinese Tones

Answer these questions about Chinese tones

What is pinyin?

Chinese is a tonal language. What does this mean? Each letter can be said differently.

How many tones are there? 4

Describe how your voice changes for each tone
Tone 1 A high flat sound.
Tone 2 A rising sound.
Tone 3 A down and up sound.
Tone 4 A down sound (angry)

Finish this sentence: Chinese characters don’t show how words should sound.


What does ba (tone 1) mean? The number eight.

What does ba (tone 4) mean? Dad


Play this tones game (guess the tones)

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