{"id":10334,"date":"2010-01-27T10:02:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T14:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=10334"},"modified":"2010-01-27T10:02:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T14:02:28","slug":"c-doc-learn-chinese-nyc-basics-for-pronounciation-and-the-four-tones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/27\/c-doc-learn-chinese-nyc-basics-for-pronounciation-and-the-four-tones\/","title":{"rendered":"C-DOC: Learn Chinese NYC &#8211; Basics for Pronounciation and the Four Tones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>The Chinese Doctor<\/strong><\/span> <em>is a recurring feature written by Friend Of JET, Jon Hills, who maintains the blog for Hills Learning (<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">www.hillslearning.com<\/span>).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hills Learning is a NY-based language learning services company offering customized and personal Chinese, Japanese and Korean language learning options. Their main service is private one on one language lessons in the NYC area.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on choosing to learn the new buzz language in New York City, Chinese. When learning Chinese it&#8217;s important to first learn the pronunciation of the language. Mandarin Chinese is a tonal language, with 4 tones that can change and distinguish the meaning of words. It&#8217;s important to become familiar with the tones in the beginning, mastering the tones will take time and energy with a trained teacher. Don&#8217;t worry though, Cantonese has 7 tones, and Vietnamese has 9 tones, so comparatively learning Mandarin should seem quite easy!<\/p>\n<p>When learning Mandarin we&#8217;ll use the word &#8220;ma.&#8221; Ma can mean four different things, depending on which tone you pronounce it with. Without further ado, here&#8217;s the tones you&#8217;ll use when pronouncing Mandarin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/pLw3v-iz\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the rest of the article, including other Chinese language and culture articles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese Doctor is a recurring feature written by Friend Of JET, Jon Hills, who maintains the blog for Hills Learning (www.hillslearning.com). Hills Learning is a NY-based language learning services company offering customized and personal Chinese, Japanese and Korean language learning options. Their main service is private one on one language lessons in the NYC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-2GG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10336,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334\/revisions\/10336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}