Master Chinese Tones | Pronunciation Training

【About this video】

This video will help you understand the KEY to pronouncing Chinese tones correctly. Learn the characteristics of each tone AND practice them with me! This video is ALL YOU NEED to master Chinese tones!

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00:00 The Key to Mastering Chinese Tones
00:10 Introduction
00:45 What You Should Know
02:10 The 1st Tone
03:02 The 3rd Tone
03:39 Practice Time (1st, 3rd tones)
04:33 Solving the 3rd Tone Myth
05:46 Skillshare
07:08 The 2nd Tone
08:18 The 4th Tone
09:29 The Neutral Tone
10:37 Recap
11:38 Thank you for watching to the end!

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[GraceMandarinChinese]

I haven't made a pronunciation video for a while
And I noticed a lot of people were searching "Grace Mandarin Chinese tones"
so here it is!! 🥳
I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it! 💛

[Squallkng]

I have been studying Chinese for a long time and this topic has never been explained in a way as clear as this. Thanks!

[huegihuguenin]

The "creaky voice" description of the third tone was super helpful. I never thought of it that way. 谢谢。

[minji]

I love the fact that you explain it in a motivational way. I took Chinese classes in school (only 2 classes because the rest was canceled due to lock down) and the teacher told us that due to the fact that our native language is not tonal, we won't be able to pronounce Chinese words correctly. It ruined my motivation. But this video made me want to continue my Chinese learning journey again. You are definitely a way better teacher than the one I had in school!

[serveyourname]

I've struggled with Chinese tones for the last 16 years. Now I'm almost there. This lesson is a masterpiece, which puts conventional Chinese tutors and teachers to shame 😮

[JonasTjader]

Great video, hardest part of Chinese!

[graycamellia]

I've always struggled with tones greatly since my native language, (Korean), is not a tonal language. My Chinese teacher recommended me this video and it's definitely helped greatly! This is a very clear explanation on how to pronounce these tones because whenever I tried to say tones, it always came out kind of awkward and unnatural ㅠ_ㅠ So thank you for this informative video!

[laura]

omgggg. when she explained how the third tone is usually pronounced without the rising at the end i nearly died. i swear ive been listening to chinese an i thought i was losing my mind at how some words were being pronounced. great video!!

[NoobixCube]

The creak on the third tone is called “vocal fry”, and usually happens when you push your pitch lower than your voice can handle. I never realised before this video, but I’ve been doing that on the third tone since I started learning Mandarin. I graduated with a four year degree majoring in this damn language, and I still fell like I know literally nothing when I encounter a native speaker. Mandarin is SO much harder than Japanese. One year studying Japanese and I’m basically fluent.

[patricktu]

I've been studying Mandarin for about 15 hours and your tips were really insightful. Particularly that the third tone can be falling without the rising; the first tone only has to be relatively higher pitch than the rest; and that the neutral tone simply carries forward the previous tone. These are good to know!

[kdandsheela]

I've studied Chinese for years and never thought about how the first syllable in words like 爸爸 and 叉子 were elongated, it's cool to know that the neutral tone has its own purpose!

[nkzxyws]

This is literally the best tutorial for tones I have seen. Teachers and other youtubers make it seem so much harder…

[CAMC_]

Wait....this was the BEST and most MODERN way of learning the differences in pitch. I loved the way this video was structured! With an example from a show, and practicing by repeating after you! Within the first 1 minute into the video I felt encouraged and uplifted to continue my studying of Mandarin!! Thank you so much your videos are so much help!

[bullseye]

Her point about using intonations in other languages is spot on.

[bendikgautebjrnson]

This is the ultimate Chinese tones video I've been looking for! Very nice explained! My idea for a follow-up to this video: "from isolate tones to a smooth sentence", where you could show how sentence melody changes from a robot-speech to smooth human sentences. Many of us are able to hear and produce tones on our own when they're isolated, but to put them together to make a full sentence is a challenge already

[김챱챱-hs]

Last year this month, I could jist say "一，二，三，四"，"你好"，"我是韩国人" but now, I obtained HSK level 5 ceritificate!! I really appreciate you. Cuz your video is really really helpful! 谢谢，老师 :))

[Dojan]

This is incredibly cool!
I'm not really studying Mandarin, just sporadically as a hobby. The tones always seemed really difficult to me, despite my native language definitely having tonal components (not quite to the extent of Mandarin, but definitely in the sense where the wrong tone changes the meaning of words or sentences), but this explanation is so succinct and easy to follow.

Thank you so much!

[alexiaandrade]

I'm Brazilian and I'm studying a Chinese class from a Brazilian YouTuber but this class opened my eyes about the four tones! Thank u so much

[badczark]

Wow. Finally I found a Chinese Teacher that is really Good. Well explained and easy to Learn. Thank you so much

[ambersimerly]

I'm just starting Mandarin and I KNOW without a doubt you are a top notch resource. In the short time I've been learning, I've noticed the change in the 3rd tone and didn't understand why. Thank you!!~♡