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What does Chinese sound like？ | ||
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| Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5957 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes  Studies: Mandarin | Message 9 of 11 06 November 2012 at 5:56am | IP Logged |
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To use an English expression, "Thems fighting words". That said, my university Mandarin professor (back when DeFrancis was the newer available textbook) said that most English speakers perceive Mandarin conversations as being angry quarrels due to the 4th tones. The posted comments are more a reflection of peoples' linguistic experiences. I doubt that anyone here meant anything derogatory.
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| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4871 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 10 of 11 06 November 2012 at 10:03am | IP Logged |
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I think mandarin sounds kinda cute and joyful.
My parents think it sounds like those autist twins from my home town though... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 11 of 11 06 November 2012 at 12:20pm | IP Logged |
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I think it sounds cute.
I have not heard Xiang (Hunanese) spoken much. I don't know about Cantonese, but my favourite is Shanghainese http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j77539qA1L4 this girl sounds very cute. (Wu lessons for Mandarin speakers). 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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