Train Your Ears to Hear Chinese Tones | Chinese Tone Challenge

[@Snow0-0]

I had 8 mistakes, meaning my score was 84 overall. I actually got a lower score than I thought, but that just means I have to work hard and come back to this video in the future to check how much I've improved :) Thank you Grace for the video, your "test yourself" videos are always the best :)

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

That's a pretty nice score! I'm glad you enjoyed the video! 💛

[@Jung2-samanhudisound]

interesting that you make challenge with more than one syllable but you include answer for other syllable too, nice, i only need to guess one tone but i try to guess other syllable, its like bonus challenge for me

[@Lomky]

7 errors! no specific tone-pair mistakes repeating, but more errors around 3rd and 4th than the others. love this practice, thank you!

[@donnawright6844]

I mix up the 2nd and 4th tone all the time I just can’t get it right 🙈🤷🏽‍♀️

[@pacocalabasa6605]

2nd 4th and 5th for me. would have scored higher if I guessed 2nd every time.

[@TheTMax]

This was very much needed, for me! Crushed the first part, almost no problem! Second and third parts, I got most of them right. But if you did this same quiz with short sentences of 6 or more characters spoken faster, I'm sure my results would be awful. Distinguishing one tone spoken at a slow pace is easy for me, but identifying multiple tones at natural speaking speed would be tough🤯谢谢老师!

[@adamrydz]

I find it most difficult to distinguish between the 2nd and 3rd tone, especially in short syllables and when a syllable ends in i, u or ü. Thank you for your effort, much appreciated.

[@我爱埃伦]

Yeah I sometimes can't tell if it's zhì or zhǐ.. cuz it's so damn short

[@filzafarheen6455]

A really good way to tell the third tone is to listen when the voice become lower or has slight crackle /rasp as it comes from the throat

[@qq5369]

Yeah~ a new video for training my ears. Thank you.

[@infanteer7535]

Somehow I find 2 syllables a lot tougher than single syllables. Hopy you can have more videos like this on YT and in your future course!

[@edwardreuben6650]

我在店里试了一下我的技能。那个人困惑地看着我。我停下来说英语。我知道我会变得更好。谢谢你给我勇气。😗☺

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

加油！

[@pencev2009]

Hi Laoshe.This training is very nice.I have listened and for the first time I had 17 bad answers the worst was second oné.

[@EvaMariposa]

I think I can safely say I'm tone deaf 😂... Been studying Mandarin for over 2 years and I still cannot distinguish the tones 😅

[@shokujinki]

I'm 3 years and still tone deaf

[@EvaMariposa]

@@shokujinki I guess it's reassuring we're not alone 🙂

[@tranvo3490]

Me too 😢

[@igornorado]

Happy to know I'm not alone 😂

[@shokujinki]

@@EvaMariposa I think, we need to practice more. I sucks in music, maybe it's that too

[@ИгорьБеда-о8н]

I had 12 mistakes, meaning my score was 76 overall. 您的帮助很有用。我喜欢看见新视频。太谢了，老师。

[@manningbartlett522]

7 mistakes for 86 points. Every single mistake was when I could not correctly choose 2nd tone or 3rd tone. Clearly that is where I need to work the most.

[@mrb0bd0balina]

Thanks so much for this! I got them mostly right, good to see my tone deafness is gradually decreasing. Just gotta keep practicing..

[@ernstdemoor]

Thanks, this is a very useful listening exercise! I had 7 errors, of which 6 in the three syllable section. It seems my brain is too slow to follow it then, similar to my conversation experiences. I’ll keep training!

[@varo9491]

wow it was a lot easier than i thought. the only one i have trouble with sometimes is 1 and 5 tones

[@hflh1884]

This was so helpful. Will the course include more like this?

[@markykid8760]

4 wrong. Two of them were the neutral 5th tone heard as the 4th, q14&33. Thanks, great quiz

[@yt7586-j5o]

Thanks for the video! Do you have a video that shows one how to remember the tones of different words? I just mixed up 消费 and 小费 😅

[@xzywx]

Ugh thank you, this was very helpful. I will need to practice a lot because I don't hear the tones, I totally got the 2nd/3rd/4th tones wrong all the time I only heard the 1st tone because it sounds unnatural for my ears and the 5th tone because it sounds shorter than the rest. I wonder if musicians have an easier time because they got used to hearing the notes in music.

[@Jung2-samanhudisound]

Wow, a new video Thanks Grace I'm new mandarin learner, about to leave pinyin to start using zhuyin, it's nice to see many other of your video that include zhuyin, i know it will need more time to make, thanks for your hard work

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

I'm so happy to hear that! Best of luck with Zhuyin and your Chinese learning journey!

[@mayankkumar0982]

Namaste 🙏 from the sacred soil of the Indian subcontinent. I am deeply grateful for your wonderful videos-they are a treasure of knowledge and inspiration. Your work has been immensely helpful for learners like me, and I cannot thank you enough for the effort you put into creating such meaningful content. I humbly seek your guidance on something I find a bit challenging. I am here for one request ma'am. The third tone is in Mandarin. Specifically, I struggle to understand how to read sentences with two, three, or even four third tones. It would mean the world to me and many others if you could kindly create a detailed video covering all aspects of the third tone in such cases. Your kind help and expertise would be a great blessing to learners like me, and I would be forever grateful for your support. I'll be very happy for considering this request. Thank you ---

[@gameplay1000k]

Hi, Grace! I have studied mandarin language since 2 years ago and mainly I can recognize all the tones, but sometimes I confuse 3rd and neutral tone. Tú enseñas muy bien! Gracias desde Argentina 我的老师！

[@tariqaziz3617]

Nice teaching.

[@chisaomusician7752]

Wow I'm doing pretty good. I subscribed so maybe I will become fluent.

[@denisek7]

😭 難的, I need to practice more... 謝謝你 老師 🙏

[@Aleksey-Chukanov]

i like the music in the end.

[@priyanshibansal10]

Nice video 😊😊 good job

[@josephmak0865]

Xie xie , with first xie hiighlighted, (4) Then followed by a satisfying ding ding... But I find just the Pinyin alone is hard to figure out what word I am hearing... You may also consider getting someone to create an Grace Mandarin app with quiz like this. Green dingding or red x buzz if wrong

[@danniballecter7936]

I did well with the first 20, though messed up on one of the 4th tone words. But when it started having multiple syllables, I struggled more with identifying the tone.

[@joshuasamuel2122]

I got everything right but one in the single syllable section. In the double syllable section I got most wrong. Same in the three syllable section and then I gave up 😂😅 But I'm not even learning Chinese. I'm learning Japanese and I think the pitch accent in Japanese really helped me with the tones in the single syllable section.

[@Bryonix337]

96 points thank you so much for this! (: it felt like a listening comprehension at school XD my mistakes were: quán qiú huà (I dont know what I thought there lol) bǐ jì běn (I thought the 1st tone)

[@giulianocantadore6739]

I had five mistakes, so I guess it adds up to 90. I think my difficulty with Chinese tones is the same I previously had with Latin long vowels, I am able to mechanically produce these sounds and even identify them in speech. However, and I have a really tough time associating the quality of vowels (either "longness" or tones) to words. For example, in listening I can distinguish 会 from 回 (apart from context), but in speech I have to pause and think for a moment to remember that the first is huì and the second is huí.

[@givemeallthelemons]

I got 31/50 and got 62 points, i did okay. I struggle the most with 2 tone and 4 tone, i hope to get better. 🙂

[@AmberRedspark]

I'm very good with tones, my family says it's because I'm good in music, haha. Thank you for this video! ^.^

[@RampagingRice]

Got a 90! I'd say I was probably mishearing the first tones as second tones the most.

[@adamadamadamadam]

80% (10 errors) I made two specific mistakes the most. Four times, I heard the 2nd tone as the 3rd. Four times, I heard the 4th tone as the 1st.

[@KhanKhan-z7v9x]

Thanks laoshi

[@ladyevenstar22]

This was hard , I wasn't a total failure I often got 2 out of 3 but there were a few 0s😢, I think I mix up é and é the most I've got ě and ē figured out ( don't mind the letter e )

[@sicca5913]

47/50 Neutral tones ahhhhh

[@natalymy924]

I decided I need a more strict assessment so I counted not only the red ones, but all of them I got 95% in the first section, 70% in the second and 73% in the last one, 69,5% generally Have I counted the red ones exclusively I’d get 19/20 for the first, 11/15 for the second and third, 41/50 or 82% for all Both of those kinda disappointed me, but I’ll just keep studying and it’s gonna be alright :3

[@VocalFox]

6 errors for a score of 88. No errors in the single syllable section, 2 errors in the double syllable section, and 4 errors in the triple syllable section. It seems like for me, the more syllables there are together the less reliable my ears are 😩. That doesn’t bode well for understanding full sentences 😵‍💫😵. Most of my errors were confusing 4th tone for 2nd or 3rd tone.

[@josephmak0865]

7:28 別針..are you telling the bee not to sting? "Safety pin" is a new vocabulary for me

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

😂那樣的話，我會說「別叮！」

[@ArcadiaVibe]

I had 8 mistakes. Most of them were 3rd & 5th tones. I will perfect this!

[@Liminix]

wow, I really struggle with differentiating the 2nd tone and the 4th tone 😓

[@rodrigues_aires]

I scored 82 (2 months studying mandarim).

[@marvinlee7657]

Why the 8th question is not the 2nd tone?

[@eliascampos6721]

saludos desde lima peru

[@peterberger1931]

37/50, most difficult for me is the 4th tone in this test. I have been learning for 300 days now

[@jasondicioccio880]

49/50.. 放鬆的鬆我回答了「2」。我真的不知道為什麼，第二次聽後我就覺得滿清楚了

[@jasondicioccio880]

喔！。對了，「想法」這個詞，人沒有認識這個詞的話，只使用聽力分別，他們怎麼正地聽得確分別「想」的聲調？🤔

[@binthao-bq9yo]

I'm a new comer and I got 26 errors 😭😂... It still hard to me when combined 3 words. I struggled on low and neutral tones. Sometimes it clear sometimes sounds like first or second tone. 😂

[@eliascampos6721]

hola grece ,wo xi huan ,,los tonos 1 y 3 como que parecen ,pero una gran parte acerte ,la confusion esta cuando ejemlo 4 tono lo haces corto o ligeramente alargado y se parece a tono 1.,,gonxi

[@genace]

1 wrong🙁😩So I got 49/50 for a score of 98. I’ve always found the neutral tone to be the trickiest, but I think I can distinguish it a little better after this tone challenge. Thanks, this was fun!

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Wow only 1 wrong! Almost perfect!! 🥳

[@الدعسوقةالقطالاسود-س2ز]

I made mistakes in four questions between the fourth and third tone.😂💕I love you thank you my teacher

[@maribenimendez8010]

I got 46/50 😊

[@douglasmarinho3653]

The hardest tones was 3rd and 2nd tones.

[@Aleksey-Chukanov]

18 misstakes... oh, i am a looser. Very helpfull video. Thank you!

[@livi-hj1gw]

Got 4 mistakes, most of them being 2 tone, because it sometimes sounds a bit as third tone

[@bwanikarobertndawula5560]

30/50 😢😢

[@M.illie12]

Get 25 right answers 😂. Mostly confused the 1st and the 2 nd tones 😂

[@yoheivlog1435]

I made mistakes mainly on 2nd tone for 3rd or 4th tone... This is difficult. But I got 42/50!

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

That's pretty nice! Keep it up! 💪

[@kankankankankankankan]

I got 80

[@Кукусик-е2э]

88% 2nd tone in 2 or 3 syllables is the most challenhing🤷‍♂️

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Feel free to share how many you got right in the comments! 😉

[@Стефинакріпачка]

I did 5 mistakes, 3rd tone is impossible sometimes😅

[@jacktam8]

Scored 70, 15 errors😩 3rd tone is so confusing.

[@shukrimahmood]

👍👍👍❤️🌷

[@Daniel-rw9um]

tone 2 is too similar to 3 to my ears. but also tone 3 is too similar to 4. and also tone 4 is too similar to neutral tone!

[@СтепанСмирнов-п4д]

What tones did I find confusing? - All of them...

[@winterscent30]

96分，都是把第二和第三声调搞混😅

[@no_chefs_here3194]

9個猜錯了😯

[@simonyang-pe3ux]

how many Chinese learners here, Hello guys

[@vanhoang0802]

你好👋

[@E11imist]

The neutral tone... 我靠

[@MrILoveBacon11]

I got 21 incorrect… whoops

[@Fashloza]

30 mistakes 😢my score is 70 😢😢

[@europec2082]

First here

[@fairisy]

Almost perfect, it means I got 98! My trickiest thing is the difference between the 3rd tone and 5th tone in the last character, cuz I heard they are the same thing🥲