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Re:Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mand... by rahimnathwani on Saturday December 21, 2019 @12:35PM (#21852310)
It's great to have a tool like this be available without any software installation.

I remember when I first started having Chinese lessons, my teacher used some Windows-based software to show me visualisations like these. It helped a lot to know where I was going wrong.

The visualisations here are the most useful part IMO, followed by the example sounds.

If you're a native English speaker learning Mandarin: one tip for the second tone is to make it sound like you're asking a question. In English, we raise the tone of the last syllable in a question. So if you pretend you're asking a question, you'll naturally get the right tone.

Re:Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mand... by drastorguev on Sunday December 22, 2019 @05:41AM (#21856394)
Hi, do you remember what the Windows-based software was called, by any chance? Was it PRAAT?