Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Chinese Tones

What is PinYin?
PinYin is a different way of writing the Chinese language . 

Chinese is a tonal language. What does this mean?
It means that the Chinese language use tones to identify what the words mean.

How many tones are there?
There for 4 tones.

Describe how your voice changes for each tone
Tone 1 - High and flat sound
Tone 2 - Rising sound
Tone 3 - Down and up
Tone 4 - Down (angry)

Finish this sentence: Chinese characters don’t show how words should sound.

What does ba (tone 1) mean?
It means the number 8


What does ba (tone 4) mean?
This mean dad.

No comments:

Post a Comment