Tone trouble
I have developed a new problem with my tones. I seem to have gotten into the bad habit of talking too fast in Chinese so that my tones run together. In English this is not a problem, but in Chinese if say something like "kangaroo" which in Chinese is "dai\ shu\/", and I say it too fast then it comes out something like "dai\ shu/\/". In other words when one tone ends on a low and the next starts on a high I have developed the bad habit of joining them together by adding a rising tone between them.
So now my speech has slowed down a lot. I have to be careful to pronounce each word or syllable individually one at a time.
So now my speech has slowed down a lot. I have to be careful to pronounce each word or syllable individually one at a time.
posted by John at 10:03 AM
2 Comments:
Don't natural tones, as opposed to clasroom, actually do that anyway?
Not the way I was doing it. I didn't realise what I was doing until a native speaker pointed it out to me, but now it has been pointed out I can see that my tones would have sounded very wrong.
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