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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.
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Revision as of 06:24, 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.