well, heh, considering it's usage, I can barely think of a usage where the third tone is isolated anyhoo. It's half and half, the merciful goddess of accents...::wry grin::
More like when our teacher is saying individual words out loud, like mai3 (to buy) and mai4 (to sell), to get us to recognize the difference, and I can't really hear one. In context, of course, it's usually clearer. But then again, It's probably just me--I think I'm always going to have a problem distinguishing tones.
o.o thing is, in context it might be more different, depending on the word.
which...heh, doesn't help. ummm...maybe the idea that mai3 is generally lower than mai4? ::points at the diagram:: See, mai3 starts out low and goes up, except when there's a tone shift. Then, both mai3 and mai4 goes down, but mai3 is generally a lower tone than mai4...
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which...heh, doesn't help. ummm...maybe the idea that mai3 is generally lower than mai4? ::points at the diagram:: See, mai3 starts out low and goes up, except when there's a tone shift. Then, both mai3 and mai4 goes down, but mai3 is generally a lower tone than mai4...