Mandarin Chinese is a tonal language

Cherry Zhang
1 min readMay 8, 2018

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Mandarin Chinese is extremely complex to learn, especially for English speakers. However if you made daily practice and strong commitment with yourself then you will be successfully Master. You can made practice with your text books, with your friends that speaks mandarin Chinese or online with various Chinese teachers.

So keep in your mind that It is very essential to learn tones if you are willing to speak and learn Mandarin Chinese. Mandarin Chinese contains four tones which are as under:-

· First Tone

The first tone is very high and flat tone. Your voice remains flat during speaking; there will be no rise or slope.

· Second Tone

It is a rising tone. In second tone, the voice rises from low to middle pitch. If you ask someone to repeat something then you say “huh” or what?

· Third Tone

Third tone is called as dipping tone. In third tone, the pitch will go from middle to low and to high.

· Forth Tone

The forth tone is almost a lowering tone in Mandarin Chinese.

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