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If you ask any Mandarin learner which aspect of the language they find most challenging, it’s highly likely they’ll give a one-word answer: tones.
For years I would have said the same. Tones did not come easily to me and like many learners, I neglected them for years thinking I could get away with it. In fact, I only really started taking tones seriously around four years in and it took months of retraining my brain to perceive and produce tones properly before I truly felt comfortable.
I regularly get asked how learners should go about learning tones so I thought this topic merited an episode in itself. On today’s podcast, I’ve assembled a group of Chinese learning friends who are all at different stages of learning and have interesting insights to offer.
