Back to Chinese everyone on the net and all over the world talks about how important "tones," are in the Chinese language. I realized how truly different they are I not only in pitch but also in length, force and stress.
Take this Glossika ZH sentence as an example:
你 包儿里 有 什么
nǐ bāorli yǒu shéme
What do you have in your bag?
From that sentence, I would say that 50% of the sentence is tonal and the rest is atonic.
Tones as I understand them:
First tone : High, short and leveled
Second tone: High, short and rising
Third tone: pitch is somewhere lower than the first two drops and then rises and it's the longest of the 4 tones
Fourth tone: Starts high as then drops rapidly in pitch, losing force at the very end of the sound.
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