This came up while I was learning about fruit in my Chinese class:
What is the rule for tones in pinyin? Because I always see them at the end of the words whereas in Vietnamese you’re suppose to put them in the middle…
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It may depend on the language
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LOLOL can totally relate~
does it have to be memorized?
this does a pretty good job at explaining ^^
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Thank you! It makes the tones even more complicated for me now XD (I can never memorize the tone names… so I call them by Vietnamese ones)
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As a child I wanted to be a vet, now not really, I want to be some kind of doctor
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Human doctor?
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oops 
I just refer to them as 1, 2, 3, 4 (not sure abt everyone else)
the tones have names in Vietnamese?
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ja~
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Yeah, my sibling has them all down even though she hasn’t even started classes yet
Idk why I’m so confused, there are only 4 tones-
Yep!
Sách = equivalent of the 2nd tone
Huyền = equivalent of the 4th tone
Ngã = to me, it’s like the 3rd tone
Hỏi = same as the top, just say it like it’s a question
Nạng = lower than the 4th tone
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That’s nice! Being a vet is kind of hard because animals can’t really communicate their pain
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LOLOL what are u confused abt? 
oooh, I don’t really get what you mean by lower on the last one? (I put it into google translate lol-)
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I guess, but I changed my mind for other reasons
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Makes sense, makes sense. xD
Yeah, speaking is not my forte. Hmm, well we can have our speech in front of us, but we still have to maintain good eye contact, so I guess we have to, to some degree.
Ahaha same. It’s easiest that way.
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Take Cantonese, that has 9 tones-
xDD
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As a child I wanted to be a therapist, now I like forensics more. I’ve found a college with a good CSI course so, yeah, I’m gonna be doing that
therapist was my 4-6 y/o dream, 7-11 was the serial killer dream job which got me into forensics 
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the best job 
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maybe
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OOH FORENSICS! I used to want to get into that field too. That class was so cool. I still find it interesting (handwriting handwriting handwriting xD) but then neuroscience stole more of my heart
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XD yeah, it’s a lot of fun!
oooh sounds fun
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whats that?
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