Can You Hear the Difference? | Chinese Tone Challenge

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  • Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
  • 📝 Pinyin and Zhuyin for the 20 word/phrase pairs in today's challenge: gracemandarinchinese.com/can-...
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Комментарии • 154

  • @GraceMandarinChinese
    @GraceMandarinChinese  4 месяца назад +12

    📝 Pinyin and Zhuyin for the 20 word/phrase pairs in today's challenge: gracemandarinchinese.com/can-you-hear-the-difference-chinese-tone-challenge/

  • @yazars
    @yazars 4 месяца назад +37

    Love the decision of using word pairs where the only difference is the tone. Getting tones correct is really one of the most important details for Chinese learners. Examples like buy vs. sell really highlight the importance of tone for meaning.

  • @TheSungMovies
    @TheSungMovies 4 месяца назад +38

    I answered ALL OF THEM correctly!!! I use shadowing technique to practice chinese tones in pairs and my tone pronunciation and recognition are improving so much!!!

    • @manga626
      @manga626 4 месяца назад

      i just started using the shadowing technique to work on my pronounciation using Audacity. I did have my doubts about it. Hopefully it helps for me also. 🙂

    • @OmeidaYangshuo
      @OmeidaYangshuo 4 месяца назад

      wow congrats on the results!!

    • @GraceMandarinChinese
      @GraceMandarinChinese  4 месяца назад +1

      Congrats!! 🎉 I'm so happy for you!

    • @CarlosSaltos
      @CarlosSaltos 4 месяца назад

      Felicitaciones !!

    • @jasondicioccio880
      @jasondicioccio880 4 месяца назад +2

      Me too! I used to be pretty bad too... Its a good thing to spend effort learning, because once you can reliably hear it, it allows you to correct your own tones. When you say a tone wrong, it will "bite your ear"

  • @chineselearning2227
    @chineselearning2227 4 месяца назад +18

    I remember the first tone challenge video, and since I think my tones have improved a lot over the last year, I'm so glad you've made a new one! 谢谢!

  • @kennyPAGC
    @kennyPAGC 4 месяца назад +15

    I'm not good with tones but got 18/20. Your pronounciation is just so clear. Also, having the choice between two options helps a lot. Next video could be tougher and have let us decide the used tones.

    • @GraceMandarinChinese
      @GraceMandarinChinese  4 месяца назад +1

      Thank you for sharing your thoughts! I actually have a challenge that fits exactly what you're looking for: ruclips.net/video/sipDvwvBJ_w/видео.htmlsi=CwzZXd8_MpAn2qLU. It's designed to help you decide the used tones and might be a great next step for you. :)

    • @zthehero
      @zthehero 23 дня назад

      Yep please have another tones challenge and a harder one please!!!​@@GraceMandarinChinese

  • @ssangari
    @ssangari 4 месяца назад +12

    i got everything right but the combinations that are hardest to distinguish for me are 3+4 and 2+4. they sound really similar D: :

    • @NicrophorusVesp
      @NicrophorusVesp 4 месяца назад +3

      I also struggle a lot with 3+4 I think because my brain confuses the starting and ending!

  • @heikachan8052
    @heikachan8052 4 месяца назад +9

    I only made 4 mistakes! I'm at the very start of my Chinese learning and I think I'm bad with tones (I'm not being modest, I genuinely think it's true) and my native language is known to be very flat. I'm so happy with my result, and I'm proud of myself!

  •  4 месяца назад +5

    Thanks for making this video, it was really useful. I struggled with a few of the 3rd tones. To help me discriminate between the tones, when the answers are revealed it would be great to hear both A and B being spoken. (Just saying in case you make a similar video in the future 😊)

  • @VernAfterReading
    @VernAfterReading 4 месяца назад +4

    First time trying tones like this. Got less than 10 right, and many I couldn't even guess. The tones are SO short! I think I need to hear the same tone many times over at different speeds. Or maybe same word with different tones over and over. Still fun.

    • @OmeidaYangshuo
      @OmeidaYangshuo 4 месяца назад +2

      it's about a lot of input, keep it up!

  • @manukast
    @manukast 4 месяца назад

    Nailed it no problem 🎉thank you Grace!

  • @silverstar3670
    @silverstar3670 4 месяца назад +1

    Very helpful! Loved it, thanks 😊

  • @ginac2772
    @ginac2772 4 месяца назад +5

    This is an excellent practice. I got ony 5 of them correct😢. I will listen again.

    • @OmeidaYangshuo
      @OmeidaYangshuo 4 месяца назад

      加油!

    • @of4950
      @of4950 4 месяца назад

      to be clear they meant it in a motivational way

  • @alexb859
    @alexb859 4 месяца назад +3

    Awesome video!!!

  • @kaelplv6585
    @kaelplv6585 4 месяца назад +1

    Love ya, thank you for making this kind of content!

  • @sigma.wr8
    @sigma.wr8 4 месяца назад +3

    this was fun and educational.

  • @eccstasyy
    @eccstasyy 4 месяца назад +1

    19/20 🥺 i'm so happy! thank you ☺️

  • @Cyberpunk_Radio_PBS
    @Cyberpunk_Radio_PBS 4 месяца назад +1

    Wow, its only my second day learning mandarin and I can hear which one :D Boy does that give me hope haha thank you for this video.

  • @methodmakeupacademy8609
    @methodmakeupacademy8609 4 месяца назад +1

    I was so worried. I really struggle with tones but I only missed 3! Thank you so so so much!!! I’m so glad I found your channel

  • @timwlake
    @timwlake 4 месяца назад +2

    18/20. I missed 5 and 15. Both because the 3rd still confuses me. Your pronunciations are amazing by the way

  • @preciousbell4573
    @preciousbell4573 4 месяца назад

    Thank you. Very useful and very difficult.

  • @genace
    @genace 4 месяца назад +3

    I scored 20 out of 20. Thanks for making this! It’s cool how you made this look and sound like a language game app but in video format. Maybe you can make/sell a Grace Mandarin app one day! haha

  • @Miro-fc1jh
    @Miro-fc1jh 4 месяца назад

    3rd tone is the hardest, thanks for this video :)

  • @danp8321
    @danp8321 4 месяца назад +2

    Great test, thank you! I dropped #1, #5 and #15 - in each case, I thought a second tone was a third. Useful to know 👍

  • @angelaliaquat3964
    @angelaliaquat3964 4 месяца назад +2

    18 out of 20. V happy with that 🎉. I am tripped up sometimes differentiating between 2nd and 3rd tones though so going to keep working on that!

  • @cherryyy0001
    @cherryyy0001 4 месяца назад +2

    thank you for making this, grace! your videos are always very helpful. you're an amazing teacher.
    i got 17/20, not bad for now. i'll review what i got wrong to get right next time.

  • @Khodarova_nails
    @Khodarova_nails 4 месяца назад +1

    谢谢。这非常有用。

  • @MCNeko6554
    @MCNeko6554 4 месяца назад +1

    I love your videos! I've learned so much vocab that's actually useful for daily life and your videos keep inspiring me to keep learning 💜💜

  • @ashleycapdeboscq364
    @ashleycapdeboscq364 4 месяца назад +1

    I got most of them right, except for 5, 9, 12, & 18. I'm pretty sure it's the same thing I mixed up each time, though I'll need to go back to check. But, when I tried your first video (I think just about when it came out!) I remember being COMPLETELY LOST because I had just really gotten started learning. A very fun mile marker

  • @user-lu4ig8ee2b
    @user-lu4ig8ee2b 4 месяца назад +1

    I got them all right! I’m really surprised with myself!

  • @dmacwills1132
    @dmacwills1132 4 месяца назад

    Hi grace, ur videos are super helpful and I am very appreciative! Could u do a video on prepositions and locations please?

  • @greatnessmasakadza9277
    @greatnessmasakadza9277 4 месяца назад +1

    18/20...Not bad

  • @juund5257
    @juund5257 4 месяца назад

    16/20 😅 need to practice more 💪🏾

  • @kathkuan2341
    @kathkuan2341 4 месяца назад

    Got 18/20 tq😊

  • @nightowl2347
    @nightowl2347 3 месяца назад

    I've very recently got back into studying Mandarin and surprisingly scored 18/20! I'm very proud of myself. Please do more of these quizzes 💜

  • @benkennington8941
    @benkennington8941 4 месяца назад +1

    I've not been officially learning but I know the tones. Scored 17. Wrong ones 1, 2, 15.

  • @saraal8864
    @saraal8864 4 месяца назад +1

    I got 18/20, I'm so proud of myself bc when I first started I only could get around 5/20 I'm actually so happy I've come this far

  • @curtsheldon2655
    @curtsheldon2655 4 месяца назад +1

    I'm learning to sing The Moon Represents My Heart in Mandarin.

  • @Flyingsearat
    @Flyingsearat 2 месяца назад

    16/20 :D

  • @simonsaville9962
    @simonsaville9962 4 месяца назад +2

    Oof! 1 wrong (15), sooo close. Thanks Grace.

  • @SerenaPerryRus
    @SerenaPerryRus 4 месяца назад

    17/20, not bad :)

  • @norawallberg1345
    @norawallberg1345 4 месяца назад +1

    20/20 😃

  • @Fuyinduolim559
    @Fuyinduolim559 4 месяца назад +1

    新春快乐 Grace Guo!恭喜发财!四季平安!出入平安!感谢您。❤🎉🧧🧧🧧🎊🎆

  • @RonanReidStar
    @RonanReidStar 2 месяца назад

    15 / 20. hardest to distinguish is third tone and second tone

  • @LesterMartinez-gg9mk
    @LesterMartinez-gg9mk 4 месяца назад +1

    I have lost 5 my listening is improving thanks to this video

  • @chiichuuhaija1605
    @chiichuuhaija1605 3 месяца назад

    100% despite beginner with no knowledge of any languages similar to Chinese but it is cuz I had done a bit of listening practice and practicing tone ranges with my own voice. Also, I was taught that 3rd tone is like a super low voice to the point of cracking 99% time since most natives speak fast or unless at the end of a word. I wish you all luck my friends! Elementary Chinese YT channel helped a lot too.

  • @basiamorris-bruton7318
    @basiamorris-bruton7318 4 месяца назад

    Yay! I got 19 out of 20!

  • @eggiestar
    @eggiestar 3 месяца назад

    I never did this ever I only recently got the idea of learning Chinese and so I found your video and I thought I give it a try I was surprised because I only got like 5 wrong 😭 I never knew how decent I am at tones I thought I would fail it all 🙌🏻

  • @ARBFoods-st2pv
    @ARBFoods-st2pv 3 месяца назад

    Nice video

  • @luismorellon2857
    @luismorellon2857 Месяц назад

    12/20. Mostly the third tone.

  • @albg1877
    @albg1877 4 месяца назад

    Thx

  • @xx-en8uf
    @xx-en8uf 4 месяца назад +2

    Only 2 wrong 🤩🤩 Thank you 🙏🏾

  • @josephmak0865
    @josephmak0865 4 месяца назад +1

    Good exercise. Usually people speak quickly and hard to catch tone of many words at once... Context is important too... For example if someone talking about finding a theme 主題 to write something... Not likely to talk about pig feet豬蹄. The tone marks above the words make the quiz easier. Perhaps your next quiz can remove that to make it even more challenging.

    • @GraceMandarinChinese
      @GraceMandarinChinese  4 месяца назад

      Thank you for the suggestion! But if I remove the tone marks, then it's more like I'm testing people's ability to recognize the characters and whether they remember their tones. 😝

  • @cutielovely6080
    @cutielovely6080 4 месяца назад

    4 mistakes out of 20, I'm feeling pretty pleased :) I think I struggle most to identify the flat tone

  • @f_bara2310
    @f_bara2310 4 месяца назад

    5 mistakes and I would say that I struggled the most with the fourth tone, but I'm glad that I can recognise them pretty easily. I still need to improve my pronunciation though. My native Chinese friends say that my Chinese is pretty good, but I think they are just polite, cause my vocabulary is still very basic. I can share about many things and they can understand me, but I'm still struggling to understand them… 😄

  • @msh-l33t
    @msh-l33t 4 месяца назад

    When I first started out I thought it was impossible to differentiate, but 6 months into learning I can confidently say that my perception has improved a lot, though I still need some practice with differentiating between the 3rd and 4th tones especially when it's the first syllable.

  • @user-yx5sh6qc5c
    @user-yx5sh6qc5c 4 месяца назад

    19 out of 20! But I can't still distiguish yin xiang 😂
    谢谢老师😊😊

  • @ttphome4124
    @ttphome4124 4 месяца назад

    17/20. I messed up with tones 2, 3, and 4.
    Questions #2, #6, and #15.

  • @sabahsara2978
    @sabahsara2978 3 месяца назад

    Thus exercise is so helpful I missed 5 😅

  • @eszteee2768
    @eszteee2768 3 месяца назад

    17/20 the 4th tone is the most difficult one for me to spot

  • @gustavoalcantara43
    @gustavoalcantara43 4 месяца назад

    16/20

  • @aryawp02
    @aryawp02 4 месяца назад

    I got 13/20 right 😔 I think the tone I struggled the most is 2 and sometimes 3! I can usually distinguish 1 due to its high pitch (some say singing tone) and 4 due to the throaty sound.

  • @colinobryan2919
    @colinobryan2919 2 дня назад

    My son got a 15 out a 10. A not bad score🎉.

  • @kyivstuff
    @kyivstuff 2 месяца назад

    I think it would be helpful to include both pronunciations after the pause for writing the answer - to better learn the difference.
    1. -
    2. B
    3. B
    4. B
    5. A
    6. A
    7. A
    8. B
    9. B
    10. A
    11. B
    12. A
    13. A
    14. A
    15. -
    16. B
    17. A
    18. -
    19. B
    20. -

  • @purebottle
    @purebottle 4 месяца назад

    14/20... i keep mixing the 2nd and 3rd tone 😢

  • @Pvonishere
    @Pvonishere 24 дня назад

    nice video... I missed a few. I am trying to help my ears know the difference in sound of tu and cu. Any ideas?

  • @user-sq5kf6mw7q
    @user-sq5kf6mw7q 4 месяца назад

    I got 13/7

  • @ericab3919
    @ericab3919 4 месяца назад +1

    Grace FYI the I in video is much closer to ㄝthan ㄧ. You're saying veedeo instead of video. It's the same with other short I sounds.
    Great vid as always.

    • @GraceMandarinChinese
      @GraceMandarinChinese  4 месяца назад +1

      I knew I had a problem pronouncing that word. I'll keep trying! 🥺 Thanks for pointing it out!

    • @genace
      @genace 4 месяца назад

      @@GraceMandarinChinese​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠ Don’t worry. The English short i sound is difficult for many people. I feel like it’s pronounced somewhere between ㄝ and 一. It’s hard to explain lol. You pronounced “listen”really well at around the :30 second timestamp. If you use the same “i”pronunciation in “video” as you did in “listen”, then I think it would sound perfect!

  • @ThalonRamacorn
    @ThalonRamacorn 4 месяца назад

    4 mistake... I think I am starting to notice something at the 3rd tone that I didnt really notice before. It sounds like it has a slight gargle sound for just a few milisecond, like it goes deep into the back of the throat.

  • @lexxryazanov
    @lexxryazanov 4 месяца назад

    20/20. When tones are shown above the characters it's too easy.

  • @stephanieveenendaal
    @stephanieveenendaal 4 месяца назад +1

    I only got one wrong, number 15

  • @JasonEyermann
    @JasonEyermann 4 месяца назад +1

    There is a chinese joke. yi wan shuijiao duo shao qian. Depending on the difference of tones it has a completely different meaning.

  • @andregonsalves1139
    @andregonsalves1139 4 месяца назад

    I made 15 out of 20. I have been made mistakes over the first tone. But there's room for improvement.

  • @wlevy3190
    @wlevy3190 3 месяца назад

    incrível como aqui no vídeo eu entendo tudo, saiu do vídeo eu não entendo bst nenhuma

  • @benkennington8941
    @benkennington8941 4 месяца назад

    Grace, hi. Ben from England here. Do you mind me using the comments section to ask how you got the name Grace, or perhaps I mean why it was chosen for you or by you?

  • @user-wb7ey5pm6e
    @user-wb7ey5pm6e 4 месяца назад

    6 wrong with 1 tone
    感谢您的test)

  • @stilted
    @stilted 4 месяца назад

    Got 15 right - but would have been zero if it weren't multiple choice!

  • @darkljs
    @darkljs 8 дней назад

    I have a test tomorrow, and I might not be as screwed as I thought...

  • @fernandoo.8737
    @fernandoo.8737 4 месяца назад

    The hardest to notice the difference is between the second and the third.

  • @givemeallthelemons
    @givemeallthelemons 6 дней назад

    I got 14/20, I was doing really good at the beginning but it got harder near the end.😢 I still think I did pretty well though. :)

  • @r4nd0mStuff
    @r4nd0mStuff 3 месяца назад

    I got 19/20, missed the first one. I have a little trouble distinguishing between the 2nd and 3rd tones.

  • @aliyousaf2897
    @aliyousaf2897 4 месяца назад

    My favourite language Chinese ❤ Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰❤️

  • @akram9353
    @akram9353 3 месяца назад

    I got 18/20 , sometimes I cannot distinguish between 3+4 and 4+4 tone for exmple 主义 and 注意

  • @zoolity
    @zoolity 4 месяца назад +2

    Finally something i was wishing you would do! 谢谢老师!
    *Will you ever make a subscription thing? (Other channels have the join button next to the subscribe) :)

    • @GraceMandarinChinese
      @GraceMandarinChinese  4 месяца назад +1

      Haha I'm actually thinking of starting a Patreon in the near future! I'll definitely let you all know when I have that!

    • @zoolity
      @zoolity 4 месяца назад +1

      @@GraceMandarinChineseThank You! Hopefully you do!

  • @minhmeo666
    @minhmeo666 4 месяца назад

    Can you make video pronounce all Chinese Pinyin!!! tksssssss^^

  • @SteveO3030
    @SteveO3030 4 месяца назад

    Is the pronunciation of words like "女" (like in "女朋友" for example) considered a fifth tone that's just less common? Or is it something separate?

  • @noxilsun3488
    @noxilsun3488 Месяц назад

    Me got 10/20

  • @woodies2009
    @woodies2009 4 месяца назад

    As for the words I know on the video, I understand the Pinyin, but when I tried to pick out with my ’musical' ears which one is correct, I've just found out it's still difficult to spot the difference.

  • @areejrizvi29
    @areejrizvi29 3 месяца назад

    Hi I would like you to explain the usage of WU in Chinese.
    I saw somewhere that it means like something is missing ? Like (wu Yi ge Ren)But when it's in a sentence I can't seem to make sense.

  • @cleuziosilva7668
    @cleuziosilva7668 9 дней назад

  • @JBUCKLEY88
    @JBUCKLEY88 3 месяца назад

    Thanks can you say the wrong answer after you say the right answer so that we can have something to compare it too? To be able to hear what we got wrong.

  • @colinobryan2919
    @colinobryan2919 2 дня назад

    I mean 20

  • @heikestoll1205
    @heikestoll1205 4 месяца назад

    I got one wrong, #15. I find it hard to hear the difference between 3/4 and 2/4.

  • @mariafilippovarus3613
    @mariafilippovarus3613 3 месяца назад

    I failed only in 18th, it's not bad

  • @Bongsokha23
    @Bongsokha23 4 месяца назад

    Sister, those 20 tones are complicated is there easy way ??

  • @mayzavan
    @mayzavan 4 месяца назад

    嗨!我有个问题因为我天天忘记我需要用什么声调然后有可能你知道怎么不忘记什么字有什么声调哈哈哈我觉得我的汉语已经还不错可是我的口语和听力都真的坏怎么办啊

  • @mervenurekim4823
    @mervenurekim4823 4 месяца назад

    Grace 老师 谢谢跟我们一起分享这么有利内容。我的14/20。 我真的很想分得别声调但不管做什么都没用。我学中文七个月了。每天都努力地学习。练习听力阅读书写口语可是我还不能说出来什么是什么声调。我应该怎么办。可不可以给我一些建议?

    • @OmeidaYangshuo
      @OmeidaYangshuo 4 месяца назад

      keep trying! do you have people to talk to? a Chinese speaking friend? it helps a lot

    • @simonyang-pe3ux
      @simonyang-pe3ux 4 месяца назад

      你说的怎么样我不知道,但是你写的已经非常地道了。加油吧小伙子

  • @samuelmoura3229
    @samuelmoura3229 4 месяца назад

    3 wrong, the fourth tone confuses me a lot :/

  • @rwditchchannel
    @rwditchchannel 4 месяца назад

    I've got 13 out of 20 correctly. I started learning chinese only 10 days ago and frankly i thought id do much worse

  • @JonathanVeit-wf9jy
    @JonathanVeit-wf9jy 4 месяца назад

    16 :)

  • @sususegar
    @sususegar 4 месяца назад

    Wait, I thought people in China don't use 赛车? When I came to Beijing I was told it's called 堵车 or is that more of a northern thing?