Can you help me with chinese tones before I give up on this language!!
Ok I am very close to givng up Chinese. I have build up quite a nice vocabulary of words but when I speak Chinese it's awful. I know what the tones sound like. I can hear them when Chinese speak to me and i can say individual words just fine with tones. However as soon as I try to start speaking at sensible speed and put more than one or two words together, my tones go all wonky. this is really getting to me now as I dont want to speak like a robot or without tones at all.
How can I start to learn to speak the words at a sensible speed etc?
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seems to me you are already doing pretty well at Chinese, since you can say individual words in right tones.
I think the best way you can work to get the tones right is to copy the way how Chinese people speak. You should listen to a lot of movies or TV series, maybe copy some into your iPod, (this is what I do to learn English, I think it is very helpful)
don't give up, please
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hi beth.
trust yourself , you can do it.
what you need is just speaking.
i had a hard time when i first talked with a native speaker in english, i find what i had learnt does not make sense.
it was really disappointed,but i know it won't be better if i give it up.
so i still work hard on english,now it's better than i expect.
i am happy to talk with you,
as a friend.
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多和中国人练习说话非常重要
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i can understand your situation totally since we can not speak english well although it only requires two kinds of tones: the rise tone and the fall tone, but in Chinese, there are four or five tones and once u do it wrong, it doesn't make any sense,so, what u only can do is just practise and practise, as our teacher said,"practice make perfect!"( basically,it 's torture.^_^)and make some native friends help u to correct your tone, and u need time,i suppose this is the only way to make it better.
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oh i form china it is easy ! i want to help you
if you want to speak chinese very well,what should you do it improve your english?
read speak listen is very Important ! Don give up for ever!
my english is not very well! but i want working on it!
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