lansili

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From :   lansili

Date : 2008-03-26 / 03:25PM

I don’t understand third tone, it has you going a little down then way up, but my friend who lived in china says its the other way around…

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benny

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2008-03-26 / 04:49PM

The standard explaination of “third tone” is “falling and rising tone”. Your friend made a mistake, it can’t be “first go up, then go down”

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Jenny

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 Jenny Li hotmail.com 
2008-03-26 / 04:50PM

so what’s your friend’s opinion? I am glad to discuss with you about learning chinese.

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