This is a mini-guide to Chinese tones. You can either click "Start" and you will be guided from one section to another or you can click on the right-hand side to go to the section of your choice.

Lexical tone is a crucial aspect of tonal languages like Mandarin and Cantonese, where the pitch or intonation used when pronouncing a word can change its meaning entirely. Recent research has ...

In 2016, she received her PhD in Foreign Language Education from KU. Her doctoral dissertation, Effects of High Variability Phonetic Training on Monosyllabic and Disyllabic Mandarin Chinese Tones to ...

An introduction to China and Mandarin, the official Chinese language. It shows how Mandarin is taught in schools with the correct tones and using pinyin, a romanised form of spelling. There's a ...

In 2016, she received her PhD in Foreign Language Education from KU. Her doctoral dissertation, Effects of High Variability Phonetic Training on Monosyllabic and Disyllabic Mandarin Chinese Tones to ...

“Oh so NOW you’re learning mandarin,” the company joked in another post sharing a link to a blog post explaining how to learn Chinese tones. It also posted a video to TikTok promoting the ...

Many Chinese names are butchered in English, often sounding like a bad karaoke rendition. While it is understandable that non-native speakers struggle with tones and phonetics, we native speakers ...