chinese lesson pinyin tones : don't bother learning them it is a waste of the Westerner's time

[schwiiZZZ]

stupid inferior white man cannot learn chinese

[jackcarpentersax]

@schwiiZZZ

You are sooooo correct. Learning Chinese is a real pain in the pigu!!

[KONATAIZUMl]

what is this garbage

[jackcarpentersax]

Common everyday things you say when you first meet someone are easy for them and you to understand without tones. However, deep conversation requires tones. Make 4 lists of words, one for each tone and then memorize those words/sylables as 4 groups. Then you will start to notice the tones when you know what tone a word shoud be and you will get used to the sound .

[philiphoward123]

I thought that was a really interesting idea too! At the moment I'm doing Japanese but my plan is to do Chinese after that. I find characters AND tones difficult so I thought I'd just do one at a time! I"m slowly getting the tones. I am a musician so you'd think I could tell the difference but it is still quite tricky.

[philiphoward123]

Well speaking for myself, I will learn tones, but this is extremely interesting, thank you!

[jackcarpentersax]

I want to learn tones, eventually. I plan to make a list of all the tone one words and to memorize them as a group and to do the rest for all the other tones.