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45 - The importance of tones is inversely proportional to the predictability of what you say
Season 1 Episode 45
Tones in Mandarin carry roughly as much information as vowels do, but still some people insist that tones are not very important, or even that native speakers don't really use tones. Why is that and what can we learn from digging deeper into this misconception?
Link to article: The importance of tones is inversely proportional to the predictability of what you say
https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-importance-of-tones-is-inversely-proportional-to-the-predictability-of-what-you-say/
Tags: #learnchinese #tones #communication #tontext
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Music: "Traxis 1 ~ F. Benjamin" by Traxis, 2020 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago