Real tone
Language Log 2018-02-07
Summary:
In 'Tones for real", 2/5/2018, John McWhorter expresses his frustration as an American learner of Chinese: "How much must I attend to the damned tones in a sentence, as opposed to in citation, to really speak this language?" As John very well knows (when he's not frustrated by the difficulties of learning a new language), […]