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Originally Posted by CoolNard
Oh and just to add on what ShibaInu's said, the third tone, is a little special.
When you try to say two chinese words in a row which belong to the "third tone" category, they'll somehow sound naturally wrong, not to mention weird. So what the Chinese do is to change the tone of the first "third tone" word to a "second tone" one without completely converting the meaning+the structural writing of the character into something different - it's only the tone which has changed. So it'd be like:
A(3rd tone) R(3rd tone) -----> A(2nd tone) R(3rd tone)
A and R represents the respective Chinese characters. ^^
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very well said...that's exactly what my chinese teacher keeps telling me (which i always forget)...
