Don't Memorize Chinese Tones - Train Your Ears Instead!
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Published 2023-03-17
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All Comments (21)
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I believe listening skill is waaaay more important than pronunciation, and practicing listening ones naturally adapt to the tones
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I did this unknowingly by watching Chinese dramas for a year almost everyday then start learning Chinese. I had two teachers until this day and both of them were surprised by my pronunciation, i still have a long way to go but listening too much Chinese before start to learn it helped more than i can imagine😄
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I always said that foreigners focus way to much on the tones exactly how you mentioned in this video. Listen to the way native speakers speak and just try to imitate them. Once you know how the tones sound it's much more efficient than trying to memorise tones.
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just today i complained to my teacher that I can not retain tones and prononciations from card-method hanzi learning, no matter how hard i try. But I can joyfully use everyday words that I heard in chinese dramas and be understood. Now, I just need to find a chinese drama about botany and organic pigments...
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Thanks for this video... one of my Chinese teachers told me that tones are important but the rhythm inside the sentences is even more important. Every language has its own rhythm. Greetings from Italy!
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This method is how my university Chinese speaking course began. I think it’s set me up well with “Chinese ears” and even though I haven’t studied Chinese in over ten years, I can still distinguish the tones pretty well.
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Going to leave updates here: day 2 of practicing with a chart, before I could make out less than half of the tones I was hearing, and now i can pronounce them better and when using the maorma site i get more than 70% right, let's see how it will be after a month
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I first noticed this issue when trying to practice with my girlfriend. She is a native Chinese speaker and I am not. Even though I can understand "textbook" Chinese I can't understand a word she says. But unlike your mother, her mother just yells all the time so I can understand her perfectly haha!
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I think the most important thing is that you keep trying to communicate. People are generally very gracious when they know that you are trying and will help you!
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When I first started learning Chinese 14 years ago I spent a lot of time with this online pronunciation chart of pinyin syllables and I’ve always gotten component on my pronunciation. Chinese sounds and tones were so foreign to me at first, I couldn’t produce them before I trained my ears to hear them. Great advice!
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The method I used was take a sentence and first say the tones one by one, then small phrases, and then the whole sentence. 我，喜欢，吃，苹果。 我喜欢，吃苹果。 我喜欢吃苹果。 Because if you go from the first step straight to the third step you'll surely go wrong.
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This actually makes sense to me. People have the exact same problem telling and pronouncing vowels apart in a sufficiently different language, and the solution is the same as with tones: training your ear. English has like 20-something vowel sounds, and people do just fine
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Thank you. This is the first useful advice I've gotten for studying tones!
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Thank you so much for sharing tone with pin yin, it's really helping me a lot
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Thank you so much for the Pinyin chart!
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What has helped me with tones: associating a tone with a colour on Pleco, training tone pair drills, learning characters and words in context from whole phrases.
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So true!! I just spent a month in China with my (chinese) wife and kids , only my wife and some younger people know what I’m saying but all the older relatives have no idea what i am saying I think because my tones are not so good. I’m going to backtrack now and get them better!
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Wow, thank you!!! Your videos help me so much, you are so great teacher!❤
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Very helpful. Thank you.
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going to give this a try, good research you did on what worked with people that learned well.
