::headdesk:: chinese. argh.

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TONE SHIFTS.

dude, no WONDER I was getting so confused with the accents. asklhdfukjh.

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[ninhursag.livejournal.com]

Urgh. Yeah, I guess Chinese is pretty much out of the question for those of us who are mostly tone deaf.

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heh, you know, I wonder now if people from cultures with tonal languages are less tone deaf than people from other cultures. o.0

[ninhursag.livejournal.com]

Interesting point. I hope so, otherwise a certain percentage of those populations are doomed to be incomprehensible, aren't they? Scary thought.

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non-tone deafness out of self-preservation? ;D

[ninhursag.livejournal.com]

Clearly tone deafness is not a life style choice approved of by some people's illustrious ancestors. :D

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::DIES::

bless you

[xsmoonshine.livejournal.com]

Tone non-deafness may be a childhood training thing - some study in a music school a while back found a lot of the students who speak chinese have perfect pitch .

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o.o dude. that sorta explains alot, upon contemplation. That and the amount of musical training chinese parents just naturally subject their children to.

[xsmoonshine.livejournal.com]

oh! I found the link. Very handy, with diagrams. =)
http://www.aip.org/148th/deutsch.html