Re: Personal langs and converse of aux
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 6, 2001, 21:17 |
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:21:09PM -0500, E-Ching Ng wrote:
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> Brian: there are some tones that are harder for me than others. I almost
> never hit the true Mandarin tone 3 - which is
> mid-falling-rising-to-high. I think I substitute a low tone for it, like
> most Singaporean Mandarin speakers - H. S. Teoh, do Malaysians do this
> too? Your dialect of Hokkien was a little different from mine (high rising
> tone instead of high falling!!!).
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To me, Mandarin tone 3 is low level :-) People keep telling me it's low
descending or something, but I always hear it as low level.
T
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