She Has a SECRET For Perfect Tones In MANDARIN CHINESE - Legit or No?

[@metatronacademy]

Here is the secret to master tones in Mandarin Check out her video and subscribe to her channel goooo! kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3qzaayMmKmNiKs

[@victorcy]

As a native mandarin speaker, I learnt something new here

[@vytah]

Why is it that KZbin recommends me a random video from a channel I've never seen before, and mere hours later I see a channel I'm subscribed to reacting to the very same video?

[@fibbintiggins2858]

just the algorithm doing its thing

[@Seacle14]

Same thing happened to me LLU

[@tanizaki]

Same here!

[@Glassandcandy]

It’s called an algorithm

[@KarlKarsnark]

Would love for you to try Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon, or just regular German. Dutch is also eerily similar to English. Cheers.

[@labethmcdonnell2328]

The Frisian(Frysk) Languages are the closest extant to English.

[@KarlKarsnark]

@@labethmcdonnell2328 yes, but I think that would be pretty hard to find, or for anyone else to use, or relate to. Although, it's amazing to watch the words morph as they move from East to West in the Germanic world.

[@labethmcdonnell2328]

There is this and wikilanguages. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/oouyi6uaft9_j6c&pp=ygURZnJpc2lhbiBsYW5ndWFnZXM

[@aliyousifalimusaad5558]

I watched the video before you and I appreciate you shedding light on hers amazing work

[@UnaVitaDiversa]

Ho scoperto il tuo canale solo due giorni fa e non riesco a staccarmene!!! Un abbraccio 😊

[@Dlingcke-LG]

14:07 You are 100% correct. I’m Chinese here and from my experience these tone changes are actually left out of schools in China, but most natives very naturally make these changes without even realising.

[@jasonchen4312]

that was incredible. bravo to her

[@SignsBehindScience]

Finally Chinese related content! By the way I also got recommend the vid you're reacting to, but I just added it to watch later lol

[@mayo9738]

I guess I knew all this stuff but never really thought about any of them before (I just knew by listening and speaking the language)

[@chabis]

Interesting, I went to that video and it showed that I already watched it right to the point where this viedo here stopped. It is great to see that KZbin is actually giving the Viewtime of a reaction viedo to the original video. It totally makes sense, but probably was not easy to implement correctly. I was actually pondering to learn Mandarin just because it can't hurt to know something about the most commonly used language on Earth. A former boss of mine, which speaks it, told me, you can find Mandarin speakers in quite about every bigger town of this planet.

[@iamsheep]

This is ironic, because today I was telling my wife she had the exact opposite problem or applying Chinese 2nd and 3rd tones randomly to English. I told her it's mostly 1 and 4 in English and recommended she speak more like a robot 😅

[@jcvp2493]

Metatron, you sure are fast. Just when that video appeared on my homepage for two days straight, I'm also pondering whether I should start learning Chinese.

[@jaimebenito620]

Books and most teachers are definitely wrong, but you don't need any PhD or internet secret video - download a free software to compute the contour of the tones of any speech, and feed the program with any natural Chinese dialogue. That's what I did to settle this controversy, and that's when I realised that the third tone is, most of the time, a slight drop and that's it. Of course the tonal curves are never as rigid as the diagram, and consecutive tones influence each other.

[@theonetruetim]

ChineseWei is my guy. Good stuff, Metatron.

[@HedonisticPuritan-mp6xv]

I love how we still can't get 2 astronauts back from near Earth orbit after 8 months of trying yet people are utterly convinced Elon Musk is going to settle Mars. We can't even reach the moon.

[@oneofspades]

Nasa has been trying to replace the Shuttle for a decade or so (never did). Nasa wanted to launch something like 100 per year. Nasa never got near 6. Elon in matter of 5 years from nothing has built and launch and developed a working booster recovery system and is approaching that number of launches. He is a catalyst. These technology would probably be invented but he accelerate it by a factor of 10 faster. Do not underestimate him.

[@ashleybennett4418]

Absolutely agree the 3rd tone should be thought of as a low flat

[@ashleybennett4418]

Learning this really helped my tones

[@Yotanido]

Funnily enough, when I looked up Chinese tones a long time ago, I do actually remember the third tone being mentioned as being a low tone that sometimes goes up. But it was primarily mentioned as a low tone. I never started studying Chinese, nor did I intended to. I just wanted to know how to pronounce Chinese words when I see them (in pinyin) This way, I can be miles off, rather than going the opposite way, lol

[@Nom_AnorVSJedi]

I’ve been told foreigners don’t have accents per se when speaking Chinese but rather they sound like robots 🤖 because they speak monotone languages.

[@James_zai_dongbei]

Nah they definitely have accents

[@LockjawJones]

Hi metatron, can you give your take on the Flint Dibble’s latest response to Graham Hancock?

[@광동아재廣東大叔]

I'm a native Korean and German speaker, but living in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, China since the last 27 years. I've picked up how to speak Cantonese which is the dominating spoken language here in everyday life, partly thanks to my personal efforts and my wife as well who is a native speaker of the local dialect. Though mostly referred to as 'dialect' , the actual difference between Mandarin and Cantonese is as German is to English. They only share the written formal language and the characters. The funny thing about those Mandarin speakers who moved to this area and stay for a relatively long time, I mean at least 10 years or even more, is that there are only very few of them who successfully learn the local dialect to a conversational level. One or two in a hundred at best, excluding kids. Cantonese has 9 tones altogether, including those entering tones. And the tone sandhi being explained in the vid is by far more complicated than compared with Mandarin.

[@baeber]

lets go bing chilling

[@damian_madmansnest]

Maybe there is a conspiracy, or maybe in Beijing where the standard is based upon people really pronounce the first tone very high. I was studying in Dalian and someone drew my attention once to the fact that Dalian people pronounce the first tone lower (around 4-4) than Beijing people.

[@damian_madmansnest]

And ofc the title about the SECRET is totally clickbait and it clearly baited the Metatron 😆 but his initial sarcasm is totally deserved. All of this is pretty standard and every teacher nowadays would tell you that the 3rd tone does not go up as high as shown in the chart, and immediately teach you the sandhi because it occurs in 你好, the first word you learn in Chinese. 一 and 不 are also maybe standard Lesson 2 content. I’d rather have her explain how you deal with multiple third tones in a row or other some slightly less basic stuff. That is to say, she still does the teaching in a very enjoyable manner, with great attention to detail, like a very good teacher would. The last part totally slays though, i only ever seen it explained in one textbook written by a bilingual.

[@siekensou77]

I have found more ppl say yao instead of yi for 1

[@iamsheep]

yat is 1 in cantonese

[@siekensou77]

@iamsheep Yes, but i was talking about mandarin. 1059 as a string of individual numbers is yi ling wu jyou But more often i hear yao ling wu jyou

[@VieShaphiel]

People who need to deal with multidigit numbers a lot (like in the military with time and unit numbers) tend to do this, but I haven't heard many ordinary people do so. Maybe depending on regions?

[@iamsheep]

@@siekensou77 oooh oooh I didn't even realise what you said! This originated from military use to avoid confusion during radio communication (and also because of Chinese dialects) they changed pronunciation of a few numbers. For some reason 一 is most commonly adopted into normal usage. The original changes made to "1234567890" was that they were read as "幺两三四五六拐怕狗洞"

[@iamsheep]

@@VieShaphiel It's common when saying numbers (especially phone numbers out loud)

[@HedonisticPuritan-mp6xv]

I don't like your tone young lady!

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[@kori228]

I've watched her video beforehand, there's nothing particularly new/secret answer to it. It's the kinda usual answer of phrasal intonation and sandhi interactions, plus some more detail about volume and length which is neat. Her -en final is strangely English [ɛn] rather than further back [ən~ɤn] that I'd expect