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One of the first concepts you need to learn when tackling Mandarin Chinese is '''tones'''. You'll often hear that there are ''four main tones'', although there is also a "neutral tone," so you sometimes hear it said that there are five.
 
One of the first concepts you need to learn when tackling Mandarin Chinese is '''tones'''. You'll often hear that there are ''four main tones'', although there is also a "neutral tone," so you sometimes hear it said that there are five.
  
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{{Point Type|tone}}
 
{{Point Type|tone}}
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Revision as of 06:26, 21 February 2015

One of the first concepts you need to learn when tackling Mandarin Chinese is tones. You'll often hear that there are four main tones, although there is also a "neutral tone," so you sometimes hear it said that there are five.