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24 sats \ 2 replies \ @flat24 27 Dec 2024 \ on: Learn Chinese/Japanese with Sensei: 自由自在 ideasfromtheedge
Chinese and Japanese are the most complicated languages, in my opinion.
I was recently watching a documentary about China, and at one point they were talking about words and their phonetics and I was surprised to find that there is a word "Ma" that, depending on the intonation, means something different
ehem.
Maa
Ma
Maaa
Maaaaa
as
something similar to what I tried to represent with my example.
That really blew my mind 🤯
Actually Chinese only has four tones. I think other tonal languages like Thai and Vietnamese have more tones. Yup, it boggles my mind too haha
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Actually Chinese only has four tones. I think other tonal languages like Thai and Vietnamese have more tones.
Thank you very much for this interesting information, I didn't know it!
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