Comments on: The Hacking Chinese guide to Mandarin tones https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-hacking-chinese-guide-to-mandarin-tones/ A better way of learning Mandarin Sat, 13 Sep 2025 17:44:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Hd Streamz https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-hacking-chinese-guide-to-mandarin-tones/#comment-127671 Sat, 25 Jan 2025 11:10:43 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=9863#comment-127671 This post really clarifies the often confusing topic of Mandarin tones! I appreciate the tips on practicing and the examples provided. I can already see how focusing on tones will improve my speaking skills. Thanks for sharing such valuable insights!

]]> By: Olle Linge https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-hacking-chinese-guide-to-mandarin-tones/#comment-127255 Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:33:51 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=9863#comment-127255 In reply to Robin.

Thank you for pointing this out, I’ve now fixed the error!

]]> By: Robin https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-hacking-chinese-guide-to-mandarin-tones/#comment-127248 Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:06:07 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=9863#comment-127248 There is a broken link for the audio file in this article’s section 3.3 for:
3+4 mǐfàn, rice

You may want to correct it.

]]> By: Jon https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-hacking-chinese-guide-to-mandarin-tones/#comment-103913 Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:29:26 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=9863#comment-103913 I agree that tones are absolutely critical to learn. But I would say that the hardest thing about learning tones is keeping one’s motivation up during the learning process. Memorizing tones can feel really boring and dry.

I found this game “Ka Chinese Tones” https://chinesetones.app/ that was helpful in mastering tones that I now recommend to all my friends trying to learn Chinese. It was easy to use, and after using it for a while, it made tones feel very natural for me.

]]> By: Brian https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-hacking-chinese-guide-to-mandarin-tones/#comment-96272 Mon, 06 Jun 2022 13:01:59 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=9863#comment-96272 I learned tones with a spectrograph. I was initially unable to even differentiate the tone of my own speech, but after many hours with a spectrograph, I could hear and reproduce tones.

]]> By: Olle Linge https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-hacking-chinese-guide-to-mandarin-tones/#comment-42971 Fri, 26 Oct 2018 17:22:11 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=9863#comment-42971 In reply to Mark Carter (Hanping Chinese developer).

I’ll need to revisit these function in Hanping again. I haven’t checked anything out since you released the sound box, which was great. Thanks for reminding me!

]]> By: Mark Carter (Hanping Chinese developer) https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-hacking-chinese-guide-to-mandarin-tones/#comment-42955 Fri, 26 Oct 2018 01:49:58 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=9863#comment-42955 Excellent article. Our Hanping Chinese Dictionary app has a soundboard section to help with tones. Rather than the common approach of laying out the pinyin table as initial-final combo, it asks the user to first select an initial or final and then presents a table of all corresponding syllable-tone combos. This way, you can really drill down into learning, say, one initial in all its various forms. Furthermore, you are only given sounds that actually exist (1298 single-syllable sounds in total). Also supports Zhuyin.

The Pro version additionally includes the ability (HSK Tone Pairs tab) to hear two-syllable sounds from HSK level 1 to 5. Note: if you have purchased the HSK (2 to 5) add-on, all tone-pairs are available, otherwise only the tone pairs in HSK 1 are available.

Lite: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.embermitre.hanping.app.lite
Pro: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.embermitre.hanping.app.pro

]]>