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\nHacking Chinese Tones:
\nSpeaking with Confidence<\/span><\/h2>\n
The resources and methods
\n<\/span>you need to learn Mandarin tones<\/span><\/h5>\n

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Tones are essential; get them right now
\nand save yourself a ton of trouble later<\/h5>\n

Learning the pronunciation of a new language can be fascinating, opening a whole new world of sound.<\/p>\n

But it can also be frustrating, especially when dealing with something you have never encountered before, such as tones.<\/p>\n

Many students feel discouraged when native speakers don’t understand what they’re saying, or when they realise what they were taught about tones is actually wrong. Some even quit learning entirely because of this.<\/p>\n

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I started learning Chinese in 2007, and misunderstood how the third tone is supposed to be pronounced. No one pointed this out or tried to correct my pronunciation until I had studied for almost two years, even though I was enrolled in several different courses during this time! It took a lot of hard work to fix this problem, and I was a bit upset that no one had explained this earlier.<\/p>\n

Now I know that this was not an isolated case, bus that the teaching of pronunciation and tones is in a poor state in general. This is why I decided to create Hacking Chinese Tones: Speaking with Confidence.<\/p>\n

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Struggling with tones? You’re not alone!<\/h5>\n

With the right resources and methods, learning the tones is just a question of time, but if you have misunderstood something fundamental, practising more will just cement bad habits and will make it harder to fix these problems later. Better to take action now and learn the tones properly!<\/p>\n