[b]Conclusions[/b]
The tones of Mandarin Chinese are undoubtedly a challenge, but they can be learned with the proper approach. The one I propose is simple: consider a whole sentence and listen to it, try to figure out how it sounds as a whole without focusing on the tones. You’ll find that it is an efficient approach to acquiring tones in a natural way.
(*) In 2006, Harold Goodman, author of three audio courses created an approach to color-code Mandarin tones. In addition to colors, each tone has also an accompanying gesture. For example, for the sound ā your thumb moves in a straight, lateral direction, index finger points upward for á, The index and middle fingers form a V sign to indicate the third tone (ǎ), and so on. This approach was tested with volunteer students in theUS and they seemed to recall tones very well.
For more information, please refer to:
- [a href="http://www.michelthomas.com/learn-mandarin-chinese.php" target="_blank"]http://www.michelthomas.com/learn-mandarin-chinese.php[/a]
- [a href="http://www.michelthomas.com/assets/downloads/TOTAL%20MANDARIN%20CHINESE.pdf" target="_blank"]MANDARIN_CHINESE.pdf[/a]
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