On a language teachers’ mailing list, someone asked for hints on how to teach Chinese tones. Here’s how I do it. Some tools for getting students to acquire tones in Mandarin: –Directional gestures (gestures specifically for each new word that incorporate both a meaning component and place the tones into a tonal space that is […]
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Tips for Tones
Posted by Terry Waltz on June 14th, 2012
Posted in Chinese-specific, Speaking/Listening 
Tags: Directional Gestures, Mandarin, Pinyin, Tonal Spelling, Tones, TOP, TPRS 
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