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| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5810 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 1 of 9 30 August 2010 at 5:15am | IP Logged |
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pretty cool...
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| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5562 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 2 of 9 06 September 2010 at 3:10pm | IP Logged |
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I've been finding this quite interesting. I've always felt that my own hearing skill was rather poor, and this could provide helpful practice.
I'd be interested to hear what scores any other non-mandarinists managed, and whether they consider themselves good or bad hearers. Apart from my first attempt, when I had to work out which order the tones were in (flat, up, curly up, down) my best score was 48 when really thinking about the tones, playing them several times, echoíng them in my head, and 38 when I tried to go for my snap instinct. The usual range is 42 - 44. Also if any mandarinists can say wether these are a good sample of sounds. Some of them I found quite clear, but some I literally had to click on all four buttons. The most common confusion I had was between tones one and four. Edited by schoenewaelder on 06 September 2010 at 3:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6584 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 3 of 9 06 September 2010 at 4:18pm | IP Logged |
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I didn't go through the whole drill, but I found the sounds a lot clearer than most speakers' and the drill really easy. Edited by Ari on 06 September 2010 at 4:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6911 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 9 06 September 2010 at 6:17pm | IP Logged |
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65 of 72, pure instinct, I didn't play a single word more than once. The ones I "mixed up" were tone 2 and 3 (I felt that the "dip" in tone 3 depended a lot on the voice of the speaker).
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 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6381 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 9 07 September 2010 at 2:33am | IP Logged |
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There is also a two-tone drill on the same site.
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| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5695 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 6 of 9 11 October 2010 at 7:37am | IP Logged |
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I've now done this drill a total of three times (on three different days). I've never studied Mandarin before, but I do consider myself a "good hearer" (I'm a musician, if that makes any difference...). My scores were as follows:
First attempt: 40/72 Second attempt: 63/72 Third attempt: 70/72 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jasoninchina Senior Member China Joined 5233 days ago 221 posts - 306 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Italian | Message 7 of 9 11 October 2010 at 3:46pm | IP Logged |
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Every one I missed was a third tone that I thought was a second tone. I think they could make those a little clearer but overall it seems like a good exercise for people learning tones. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| skchi Groupie United States Joined 5747 days ago 57 posts - 86 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 8 of 9 03 November 2010 at 5:34pm | IP Logged |
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I think I'm a decent "hearer," and I got 65 correct. Like others, I had a few issues with tones 2 and 3.
I just gave up on the two-tone drill. Edited by skchi on 03 November 2010 at 5:37pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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