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Comment by vjvjvjvjghv

3 hours ago

Agree. It’s really hard. It also explains why a lot of people born in China tend to make serious pronunciation errors when speaking English or German. They are used to focus on different things than us westerners.

It took me very long time to really understand how impersonating tone is in Chinese.

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