Lexical tone is a crucial aspect of tonal languages like Mandarin and Cantonese, where the pitch or intonation used when pronouncing a word can change its meaning entirely. Recent research has ...

And with four tones plus a neutral tone, we can create every sound in the Mandarin language. Many pinyin sounds are similar to English, but be careful because some are different. For example ...

Complementing the "Mandarin" orange are accents of Blue Fury, which highlight the Swoosh and branding elements. These tones add a contrast to the overall design of the shoes. The mudguard and sole ...

Her doctoral dissertation, Effects of High Variability Phonetic Training on Monosyllabic and Disyllabic Mandarin Chinese Tones to L2 Chinese Learners, focuses on helping Chinese language learners to ...

It shows how Mandarin is taught in schools with the correct tones and using pinyin, a romanised form of spelling. There's a brief introduction to how Chinese characters are formed and how ...