{"id":4612,"date":"2014-01-29T09:05:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T01:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/?p=4612"},"modified":"2024-01-21T20:04:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T19:04:18","slug":"focusing-on-tone-pairs-to-improve-your-mandarin-pronunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/focusing-on-tone-pairs-to-improve-your-mandarin-pronunciation\/","title":{"rendered":"Focusing on tone pairs to improve your Mandarin pronunciation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Tones are, without doubt, one of the hardest parts of Chinese to master, and many students struggle with them even long after leaving the beginner stage of learning.<\/p>\n

Understanding the basics of tones in Chinese isn’t that hard and most people can do it relatively quickly with the right kind of instruction and some practice, but it’s not easy to translate this knowledge into actual speaking ability.<\/p>\n

I make tone mistakes occasionally myself, even though I have studied Chinese for more than a decade, but I’m pretty good at spotting them and repairing my own utterances.<\/p>\n

I believe that mastering tone pairs is crucial for all students. In this article, I will do two things:<\/p>\n

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  1. I will explain why tone pairs are so useful.<\/li>\n
  2. I will give you more tone combinations that you can possibly wish in the form of tone sorted HSK and TOCFL vocabulary lists.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I will do this both in text and through a podcast episode with content from my pronunciation course<\/a>:<\/p>\n

    Tune in to the Hacking Chinese Podcast<\/a> to listen to the related episode:<\/em>
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