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Ignoring the tone when learning a tonal language is equivalent to ignoring something like vowel differences or final consonants in a non-tonal language.
by mdturnerphys 7y ago
Ignoring the tone when learning a tonal language is equivalent to ignoring something like vowel differences or final consonants in a non-tonal language.
- yorwba 7y agoThat's a fitting comparison considering that tones in Chinese and neighboring languages like Vietnamese may have developed from final consonants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chinese_phonology#Tones_and_final_consonants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chinese_phonology#Tones_an...