Mandarin Language Tones
Posted in Uncategorized on 06/26/2010 11:25 am by admin
If the U.S. were to finally make English to official language along with a second one which would you choose?
Here is a list of the 10 most spoken languages in the U.S. (2000 census)
1. Spanish 28 million
2. Chinese languages – 2.0 million + (mostly Cantonese speakers, with a growing group of Mandarin speakers)
3. French – 1.6 million
4. German – 1.4 million (High German) + German dialects like Hutterite German, Texas German, Pennsylvania German, Plautdietsch
5. Tagalog – 1.2 million + (Most Filipinos may also know other Philippine languages, e.g. Ilokano, Pangasinan, Bikol languages, and Visayan languages)
I myself would choose French since it sounds prettier than….spanish :S lol German is complicated with it’s cases and gender, Chinese is way too hard with it’s unbearable writing system and tones. Tagalog is too unrelated lol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States
How about E-bonics?
Mandarin Zone – Tones
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Progress report on Mandarin tone study … |
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Some spectographic light on Mandarin Tone-2 and Tone-3¹ … |
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The Development of a Lexical Tone Phonology in American Adult Learners of Standard Mandarin, Chinese (Technical Report) $20.00 The study reported in this volume is based on three decades of research on the SLA of Mandarin tone. It investigates whether differences in learners’ tone perception and production are related to differences in the effects of certain linguistic, task and learner factors. The learners focused on are English-speaking students of Mandarin in Beijing, China. Their performances on two perception and th… |