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1. The pronunciation of tones. There are 5 tones and 4 tone marks in Mandarin. The 5th tone is the slight tone with an empty mark.
2. The pronunciation techniques. The following diagram shows how the tones are pronounced.
3. The tone mark is added on the main vowel. Someone also use a number instead of the tone marks on the computer. Different tone marks usually means different characters.
4. The rules of adding tone mark. The rules for determining on which vowel the tone mark appears are as follows: 1. If there is more than one vowel and the first vowel is " i ", " u ", or " ü ", then the tone mark appears on the last vowel. 2. In all other cases, the tone mark appears on the vowels in this order: " a ", " o ", " e ".
5. Practice. Examples of tones:
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Very helpful. The last NO 5 TONE PRACTICE has no sound .
Thank you.