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Listening Acquisition:. Chinese Tones from Perception to Practice by Elsa Chang. Do you speak any tonal languages?. Vietnamese (Northern). Chinese Dialects. Standard Chinese: Mandarin. O. O. O. Standard Chinese: Mandarin. Mandarin is a tonal language. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Listening Acquisition:
Chinese Tones from Perception to Practice by Elsa Chang
Do you speak any
tonal languages?
Vietnamese (Northern)
Chinese Dialects
Standard Chinese: Mandarin
O
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Standard Chinese: Mandarin
Mandarin is a tonal language.
A syllable with different tones
represents different words with different
meanings.
Standard Chinese has four pitched
tones and one neutral tone.
Learning to read Mandarin
Nǐhǎo.
Xìexie.
Wǒ zài kàn shū.
Wǒ zài kǎn shù.
你好。谢谢。
I am reading a book. 看书
I am cutting trees. 砍树
Tone Diagram1-5: one’s natural comfortable voice range
high
mid-high
mid
mid-low
low
(5-5)
mā(3-5)
má(2-1-4)
mǎ (5-1)
mà
Mā
má
mǎ
mà
Māmā mà mǎ.
Mǎ mà māmā.
Your Turn!
The 1st Tone (“Singing” tone)
Mā
The 2nd Tone (“Climbing” Tone)
máSo?
The 3rd Tone (“Growling” Tone)
mǎ
The 4th Tone (“Dropping” Tone)
mà
No!
The Revised Tone Chart
1st: singing tone (mā)
2nd: climbing tone (só)
3rd: growling tone (mǎ)
4th: dropping tone (nò)
5th: short and light (ma)
Can you hear the difference?
mā má mǎ mà
Which Tone did you hear?
ba – ba ma – ma de – de le – le
ji – ji xi – xi zi – zi chi – chi
DroppingClimbingSinging Growling
Can You Say It?
mā má mǎ màSinging Climbing DroppingGrowling
To Kiss or To Ask?
wěn wèn
To Buy or To Sell?
mǎi mài
Glasses or Eyes?
Yǎng Jìng Yǎng Jīng
Cutting Trees or Reading?
Kǎn shù Kàn shū
shīshì – accident shíshì – current events sījī – chauffeur sìjì – four seasons zìxí – self study zǐxì – careful xǐshì – happy event xīshì – to dilute shìjì – century shíjì – practical
Who is he?
YáoMíng
Let’s Try
Mā Má Mǎ MàMā Mǎ Má MàMá Mǎ Mà Mā Mǎ Má Mā Mǎ
Change of Tones (1)
Two 3rd tones
Nǐhǎo mā? → Ní hǎo ma?
Wǒ hěn hǎo. → Wǒ hén hǎo.
Wó hén hǎo.
(3-2-3)
(2-2-3)
Change of Tones (2)
The number “1” (the character “一” ):
1, 11, 21 →
一双 → yìshuāng (4-1)
一瓶 → yìpíng (4-2)
一种 → yìzhǒng (4-3)
一罐 → yíguàn (2-4)
一个 → yíge (2-0)
1st tone
Change of Tones (3)
The character “ 不”
不吃 : bùchī
不行 : bùxíng
不冷 : bùlěng
不热 : bùrè → búrè
(4-1)
(4-2)
(4-3)
(4-4) (2-4)
Tones and Intonation
Chinese tones = English intonation?
OK? OK.
Nǐ yào chá háishi kāfēi?
Nǐ yào chá háishi kāféi?
Expression: Stress & Sentence Tunes
她很好看。 她很好看。 (required in grammar)
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
- 很 said with greater force.
- all syllables remain in their original tone.
In-Class Exercise
Counting numbers with hand gesture:
1 syllable: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 syllables: 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16…
3 syllables: 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26…..
In-Class Listening Exercise
Dictation on words of two syllables:
baoguo, hupi, chongqing, fanxing etc.
bāoguǒ →bāoguò → bāogǒu
In-Class Listening Exercise
1 class session on listening exercise
→ T: Chinese only; S: translate into E.
我们 系有很多外国学生。
那个高个子的男孩是我男朋友。
→ Use words of the same category to give clues.
→ Use resources available in the classroom
Homework
Practice on tone recognition:
http://www.pinyinpractice.com/tones.htm
http://www.shufawest.us/language/tonedrill.html
Homework: Sentence Dictation
- listen to sentences read in natural speed
- write down answers in Chinese, not
English.
- to reinforce sound recognition and to
associate sounds to the characters and
meaning they represent.
Tones! Tones! Tones!
- Tones of a Chinese language is like the
foundation of a house.
- You cannot be understood no matter how
fluent you are in Chinese without tones.
- It is important to speak with correct tones
right at the beginning of Chinese language
study.
The End