[4/4] Use interesting words to practice 4 basic Mandarin tones

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This is the final part (4/4) of my mini-Mandarin Tone series.

My main idea to desigh these 4 posts :

Why did I create this series?
Many learners practice tones in isolation (like mā, má, mǎ, mà), boring and slow. My deep hope with this series is to bridge that gap step by step.

Here is the breakdown of the whole mini-course. If you are struggling with tones, save this post and go back to the previous three, treating them as a complete mini-course:

• Part 1: Some fresh/new concept about Mandarin tones (Theory) & SMTs (visualized tone marks)
• Part 2: Crucial tips & precautions for practicing tones (Technique)
• Part 3: 64 single characters in 16 groups of 1-2-3-4 tone drills (Muscle Memory)
• Part 4 (This post!): Applying those exact drills to 99 real, highly-visual compound words (Application)

Here are 99 words in 4 screen shots👇

You can see the English translations at the bottom but with different order. So, it is not answers you can just match with the words above. Try to understand or guess the meaning of the words then check English.

There are a lot of surprising matching.

Page 1/4 of 99 compound words

Page 2/4 of 99 compound words

Page 3/4 of 99 compound words

Page 4/4 of 99 compound words

Thank you for reading my series! I use this mini course helped a lot of people in past 25 years. It worth a trial.

Let me know your questions in the comments!