Lemmywontallowme@lemmygrad.ml to Learn the Chinese language@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agoWhich should I focus first? Tones or vocab (as in compound hanzi, not individual ones)message-squaremessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10
arrow-up16arrow-down1message-squareWhich should I focus first? Tones or vocab (as in compound hanzi, not individual ones)Lemmywontallowme@lemmygrad.ml to Learn the Chinese language@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareBloops@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoYes, focus on tones so you don’t have to go back and relearn all your vocab to pronounce it properly. If you don’t focus on tones, you’ll sound like my third-year classmates talking about how chest hairs love to eat bamboo.
minus-squareredtea@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWhat’s the Pinyin and characters for this and for what they’re trying to say?
Yes, focus on tones so you don’t have to go back and relearn all your vocab to pronounce it properly. If you don’t focus on tones, you’ll sound like my third-year classmates talking about how chest hairs love to eat bamboo.
What’s the Pinyin and characters for this and for what they’re trying to say?
熊猫 xiong2mao1 vs 胸毛 xiong1mao2