Welcome to Hidden Dragon
Welcome to Lesson 1
The Four Tones
Chinese is a tonal language - the same syllable with different tones means completely different words!
What you'll learn:
- The 4 basic tones and how to recognize them
- Visual tone contours to understand pitch patterns
- The secret of 3rd tone that textbooks don't teach
- Practice with real Chinese words
Pro Tip
Mastering tones is the single most important thing you can do to improve your Chinese pronunciation. Native speakers can understand broken grammar, but wrong tones make you incomprehensible!