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Working on Tones with Tongue TwistersThe Posted byOn Oct 18th, in 2010Uncategorized

Many non - native Chinese speakers find that the proper pronunciation and the use of tones are the most about aspects of learning the language and gaining fluency. This is because there are a plethora of contributor that don 't exist in both English and Chinese, a fancy you have to train your tongue for a verbal somersaults.

Been it is making sure that your tones order have the proper inflection, learning to purse your expressions using the and re - position your tongue, or finding a natural cadence and wrote just to talk, and all the require practice and repetition the when learning Chinese. It takes a good amount of work training your tongue, but there are fun ways to practice. If you really want to master your spoken Chinese, try some of these tongue twisters out. Here's a quick youtube video to help get you started:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?V = anALbZ9sX84

The teacher is forty-four, isn't it?(l, m: osh and shi sishisi, shi bu shi) Translation: The 44, The Teacher is no (is this true/true of false)?

Mother ride a horse, horse slow mother scold
M: m ā m ā qi m,
M m: man, m ā m ā ma m m:.
Translation: Mother is riding a horse. The horse moves slowly. The Mother chides The horse.

Four is four, ten is ten, fourteen is fourteen, forty is forty, forty-four stone lions only son is dead
Si shi si
Shi shi shi
Shi si shi shi si
Si shi shi si shi
Si shi si useful and shi sh and z ǐ shi s ǐ DE.
Translation: four is four, ten is ten, fourteen is fourteen, forty is forty, 44 small stones are dead

Know say know
Don't know he said don't know
Don't know don't know what to say
Also don't know say know
Do you know that?

Useful and dao jiu shu not useful and dao
Bu useful and dao jiu shu not bu useful and dao
B ū yao useful and dao shu not bu useful and dao
B ě y ū yao bu useful and dao shu not useful and dao
N ǐ useful and dao bu useful and dao
Translation: If you know, just say you know. If you don 't know, just say you don' t know. You shouldn \ 't know and say you don' t know. And you shouldn 't NOT know and say you DO know. You know?

Eat grape to spit grape peels,
Don't eat the grapes spit grape peels.
Spit no grape peels, eat the grapes
Do not eat grape to spit grape peels.

Ch: and putao t incarnation putao PI er,
Bu ch and putao bu t incarnation putao PI er.
Ch: and putao bu t incarnation putao PI er,
Bu ch and putao dao t incarnation putao PI er.

Translation: Eat grapes throw out their skins, don 't Eat grapes don' t throw out their skins. Eat grapes don 't throw out their skins, don' t Eat grapes throw out of their skins.

Read liu niang cowherd
Liu niang cowherd
Read liu niang cowherd from year to year
Liu niang annual cowherd

(niulang lian liuniang
Liuniang nian niulang
Niulang niannian lian liuniang
Liuniang lianlian nian niulang.)

Translation: The cowboy longs for Miss Liu (surname). Miss Liu pines for The cowboy. "The cowboy longs for Miss Liu, year in, year out. Miss Liu pines for cowboy for (and (.

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