Tuesday 8 April 2014

Chinese

What is pinyin?
Chinese is a tonal language. What does this mean? It means that there are different tones to a letter.
How many tones are there? There are 4 different tones ā á ã à.
Describe how your voice changes for each tone.
Tone 1(A high flat sound)
Tone 2(Rises)
Tone 3(Down then up)
Tone 4(Down)
Finish this sentence: Chinese characters don’t show how words should sound.
What does bā (tone 1) mean? This one Is the number 8.

What does bà (tone 4) mean? And this one means dad.

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