Welcome back for Season 3! In this series, we are going to do a deep dive on the tones in Mandarin. We covered tones briefly in Season 1, Episode 07, but there is still a lot more to talk about. Tones are one of those subjects that some people love and many people hate... or at l ...عرض المزيد
Daily Practice Session - S3 - Lesson 01
After listening to Season 3, Lesson 01, start reinforcing what you've learned by taking five minutes a day to practice listening and imitating the material. Repetition makes it stick.Part 1: Magic Phrase (3-2)This phrase is composed entirely of words that use the 3-2 tone pair. I ...عرض المزيد
S3 ~ 02 ~ Supermarkets need music 超市需要音樂！
Let's learn another tone pair! Can you hear which one it is? Learning the pronunciation of a foreign language can sometimes feel strange, even scary. Pronunciation is such a personal thing -- it's part of who we are, and how we express ourselves. When we start to imitate another ...عرض المزيد
Daily Practice Session - S3 - Lesson 02
After listening to Season 3, Lesson 02, start reinforcing what you've learned by taking five minutes a day to practice listening and imitating the material. Repetition makes progress. Magic Phrase (1-4)This phrase is composed entirely of words that use the 1-4 tone pair. In this ...عرض المزيد
S3 ~ 03 ~ Dangerous horse riding 拿起啤酒騎馬危險！
Today's tone pair, 2-3, is easily confused with the one we learned in episode one, 3-2. Today we'll spend some time practicing differentiating between them. Then we'll hear another fun (slightly absurd) dialogue to practice our listening skills, and absorb some new words. Lesson ...عرض المزيد