Best Explanation of Chinese Tones - AvenueX's Chinese Lessons No.2

04:44 First Tone
06:00 Second Tone
07:58 Third Tone
12:28 Fourth Tone
13:41 Light Tone
15:47 Why Light Tone is important
*Some tone marked vowels show up weird on my video, haven't figured out why for the life of me...if anyone knows please do help. I use final cut pro. You'll see it at 16:05 when I make the video everything looks right, once it's exported it turns weird. Sigh...
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[@laurelmurphy2567]

I've been learning mandarin for 6 months now and this video is EXACTLY what I've been looking for! this is a super in-depth explanation of how tones work, which is perfect for where I'm at in my studies. so useful for learners who already have the basics but want to really improve their speaking. thank you!

[@vpearson]

My Chinese teacher calls the 5th tone - the neutral tone. Thanks for the primer. Really helpful.

[@TwistedWhoFan1]

Thank-you!! Seeing the tones on a musical scale really made me hear the difference. Thank-you again!!

[@geoklianfeser-chua6808]

I learnt Chinese at a very young age and didn t know there is a 5th tone!! Thank you! Its never too late to learn something new!

[@christopher3386]

Best explanation I've ever found of this most difficult aspect of spoken Chinese. Well done.

[@onyeenoma]

Your English is very good. You speak better than a lot of native speakers.

[@nina-vc6vy]

I’ve been struggling so much in the tones for months and this was a big help. Thanks!

[@manifestingqueen8745]

This is the best explanation I've seen so far. I've been learning Chinese for a few months , and tones have been tough but this just cleared everything up.

[@wollevy2328]

If you are not now,you should be, a teacher!

[@TheAspiringCentenarian]

Thank you so much! I believe the topic on how Chinese kids learn standard Mandarin can be very useful. There are tips out there that encourage us to start learning like how kids learn languages in school. If only I can audit a Mandarin pre-school class, I would. But it's hard to find such video in KZbin.

[@sandrajones2926]

Thanks for explaining tones so clearly. Interesting about the Taiwanese accent. I've been studying Chinese mainly by watching Asian dramas. My first drama was Ice Fantasy With Victoria Song and Feng Shaofeng. I got so curious about what they were actually saying, that I started studying Chinese.

[@clarissaciabatti1893]

Thank you Avenue, thank you so much!! I have started to learn Chinese on my own and this video has been very useful

[@carolynenasimiyu615]

Thank you. This is very informative . I look forward to more of your teachings. I have learnt a lot in a short session.

[@thydapheasokun]

You should do a video about the use of "儿", especially in Beijing, after the one about tone changing. Btw, you did an amazing job, keep up!

[@1fractal]

Indeed the best explanation of Chinese tones . Thank you !

[@maelaekristinaquinones4310]

Thanks! Now I understand this more! Please make more!

[@aprilocampo9748]

Thank you so much for helping us learn chinese!!! Please post more videos sooon!!

[@saihoutrera3325]

You are a great teacher indeed. Thank you so much.

[@feng7691]

Nice work. Cute shop via the link. Unfortunately, I don't use final cut pro, but the Premiere. The story about Taiwan is interesting, nice explanation.

[@lpalm5235]

I loved your clear explanation. Very useful..Thank you.

[@gnostie]

This video is absolutely wonderful.

[@devcaster8722]

Watching this kind of video makes me want to learn Chinese. This is a cool channel. Thanks.

[@omeomy33]

I thought it would be nearly impossible for me to learn Mandarin. I will try it after watching this video. But, Korean language learning must be first to watch my dramas before the subs come out!

[@SartoriasSD]

Thank you or the clear explanation. Sometime could you talk about the books written by women for women readers, like Lang Ya Bang? That is such a fascinating concept.

[@hai0.0]

in arabic we kinda have the same thing, they’re called حركات (harakat), in arabic words can use the same set of letters, but if they have different harakat then they will have a completely different meaning. حمل can mean sheep, or the verb carry, or pregnancy, or the word load (like a load of something, a burden) and so on, harakat look like little lines above a letter, حَ، حِ، حُ، حْ and there’s a lot of rules that go into harakat, like when there’s a double harakah it turns into a vowel. it’s a lot to type and explain so i just won’t, anyway it really amazes me how arabic and chinese are similar to each other, it seems that it won’t be hard for me to learn chinese the same way it is to english speakers (since my mother language is arabic) cool video, i’ll be watching your videos and branch from there to learn chinese it’s a very fun languages to learn :D

[@Barbarossa-heir]

I found myself getting back to five years ago video to learn about the musicality in Mandarin especially in poetry.. something that I have amazingly noticed in Chinese Historical drama. Something that I 'm fan of. That's why I consider period or historical drama as more powerful (cultural) weapon than real ones .

[@nora-Lirong]

Miss your video like this one!!

[@nylg3059]

I like this video! It's so helpful!

[@Sunshine-ze3lm]

I learnt something new today. I only learnt 4 tones in school. I never knew there is such a thing as 5th tone. Thank you for enlightening me.

[@vivealexcheng]

Schools in mainland China certainly teach the light tone, but not necessarily label it as the 5th tone. In terms of terminology, "Four Tones" is much more common than "Five Tones", it probably has been kept as a tradition corresponding to the Ancient Four Tones (古四声) in historical Chinese phonology.

[@mattdan79]

Thank you so much! This is gold. As a native English speaker my pronunciation of Chinese is horrible. This video really made a lot on sense to me.

[@bassdayesammydass-rice9430]

Thank you AvenueX..my dream is to be able to speak chinese as you do english...cheers!!

[@yuankode]

"上" should be pronounced "shǎng" (third tone) when it functions as a tone indicator.

[@Rm-lb1yj]

Yuan Kode 瑕不掩瑜，真没那么重要。

[@ptanisaro]

I have been learning Chinese for almost two years now. Although I can read and understand most of the characters in the subtitle, however, I still find it difficult to understand the context just by hearing.

[@Panneapple]

Me at 3:46 : this looks interesting and important! Better pause the video, take a piece of paper and mark them down real quick :) The video right after I unpause it: "You don't have to remember this" The timing was really funny so I had to share. I'm really liking the video so far, I've seen the scale in books but it's easier to understand when listening to an actual person. Thank you for this video!

[@AvenueX123]

lol, brain wave matching accident I guess

[@eternelbonheur]

I appreciate you sharing about the difference between mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese, something I wish someone told me earlier. I also want to study mainland Chinese like you recommended but I heard of places like Shanghai that uses a lot of Shanghainese dialect or other places with different dialects heavily influenced? However I want to go to a place that I can get the best learning environment to perfect my mainland Chinese, I guess something similar to as good as voice actors' Chinese nowadays. Can you do a video about the places/cities in China that I could go to or not, to learn this? I have a lot of interest in the voice actors from our favorite dramas, where they grew up and studied in order to perfect their Mandarin Chinese.

[@AvenueX123]

places...um... I think Beijing would be the closest, if you want to here perfect mandarin, you should listen to how CCTV's New anchor at 7pm do every evening, they're the most standard Mandarin speakers in china, not necessarily the most "popular pronunciation" but closest to dictionary perfection.

[@kylelinbin]

@@AvenueX123 I recommend "My Own Swordsman" (武林外傳).

[@CaroleMcDonnell]

Thank you!

[@rotzooifacebook6437]

Very interesting video. Really enlighting! . I have just gone though all your videos. It would be nice a video with recommendations for dramas/shows interesting for especifically Mandarin Chinese learners..

[@Showbizteledrama]

Thank you so much!

[@mdonoCFC]

I’m never going to be able to get this but you are a really awesome teacher. I’m trying lol. The explanation is so good but it’s so unnatural for us westerners. Really explained so well 👍

[@wollevy2328]

Insurmountable!

[@wollevy2328]

Very interesting.I have always been curious about this!

[@kannanr9533]

Is it volume change or pitch(bass treble) change? Or both?

[@dparrot]

AvenueX not in dramaland (??) mode🤭 I'm learning the tone now.

[@phoenixqm]

"上" should be pronounced "shǎng" (third tone) when it functions as a tone indicator. yes, I have to copy the comment

[@tiramisuloverlena]

Did you grow up speaking a dialect at home? How has it affected your mandarin (before you studied standard mandarin pronunciation)? Some of my tones in mandarin sound “off” because all the tones are different in my native dialect (四川话), and we also very rarely have light tones so some people say my mandarin sounds similar to Taiwanese mandarin

[@AvenueX123]

I'm from Chongqing, LOL. I just learned mandarin since I was little in a kind of professional way, so I don't have any regional accent.

[@tiramisuloverlena]

AvenueX OMG I was born in Chongqing! My parents are both from Sichuan and I grew up in the US and I never had proper mandarin education, so my mandarin sounds very 川普 😅

[@menghanzhang6691]

AvenueX 原来是重庆妹子哈哈哈～我是成都哒～

[@HakendaNatan]

good

[@user-yt2fz7um2x]

I've watched tones of mandarin tones but still can't say the 2nd one!! After this video I can recognize it but not pronounce it yet.It's hard as a person with a totally flat language-.-

[@angamaitesangahyando685]

A really good video, but considering how terribly squeaky and unmanly my voice already is, this is the most brilliant argument against learning Chinese because I would just die of shame. - Adûnâi

[@khanhlinhhoang3834]

The Chinese tones are similar to Vietnamese tones

[@user-wt1od5gz6d]

人说九州海上牧云记已经定档了，11月播，不过变成了网剧。虽然和这视频无关不过想过来说下😂

[@Showbizteledrama]

What are you saying 😕

[@chinasubtitled8892]

“上声”的“上”读作“赏”

[@LilyUnicorn]

.....i can not hear the difference.im mostly tone deaf. I dont hear high or low. In fact...i cant really hear low apparently. It goes from quiet to loud. But i cant differentiate between loudness. Thats ridiculous. 1st tone: monotone emotionless robot 2nd tone: excited yelling happy tone 3rd tone: sarcastic tone 4th: angry tone

[@m2dieu]

You can find more tones than 4 in the Vietnamese language, thx for making this vid.

[@sihoohwang4874]

how

[@wons.type_xo]

Ew cringe lankybox fan

[@prof.carlos8193]

This demonstrates to me that it's impossible to learn Chinese.

[@sihoohwang4874]

nood

[@selvilok850]

Thank you!