tone Q

susanlande
 April 20, 2009, 06:47 AM posted in General Discussion

 

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in this lesson why is butai 4th tone, 4th tone instead of 2nd tone, 4th tone?

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antony73
 April 20, 2009, 07:19 AM

If you're refering to the Dialogue link, 不太 bùtài, is writen with 4 and 4, yet as you say, the actual pronunciation is 2 and 4. 不太 pinyin shouldn't be written 2 and 4, but 4,4

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susanlande
 April 23, 2009, 04:40 PM

Hey thanks!  My tones are def. weak.  Do you know of a chinese character software for windows vista?  or how do you type actual characters in your emails?

thx agn and i like your pic:D

susan

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jckeith
 April 23, 2009, 04:54 PM

Here is a good expanation of how to type Hanzi in Windows Vista.