What is pinyin?
Chinese words
Chinese is a tonal language. What does this mean?
It means when a word has a tone it totally changes the meaning
How many tones are there?
4 tones
Describe how your voice changes for each tone
Tone 1 - High flat - ā
Tone 2 - rising - á
Tone 3 - Down and then up - ä
Tone 4 - Down - à
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how words sound
What does ba (tone 1) mean?
8
What does ba (tone 4) mean?
Dad
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