::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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Ah ha ha ha I didn't know about the tone shift thing at all until I took Chinese at Cal last year. And then I was like, "Oh. Oh yeah." It's one of those things I've always done automatically without realizing there were "rules" for it. I didn't realize how hard little things like that would be for people who weren't native speakers.

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dude, I *am* a native speaker and got SO CONFUSED studying the accents 'cause they made no sense when I was trying to pronounce the silly thing. THIS IS WHY. ::headdesks:: _{so confused, BUT NOW THERE IS LIGHT! BWHAHAHAHA!}