<p>"Or does your school not care about correct tonality, because it should since using the wrong tone changes the meaning of the word."</p>
<p>No. My school does care about it. For my pronounciation, I just turn on a cassette tape containing passages and clear slow pronounciation of vocabularies and listen to them quite often. Because I hear it so often, its just stuck in my brain. But when it comes to new words, it takes quite a while to remember the pronounciation and say it out fluently. But I dont think pronounciation can be a big problem.</p>
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No. My school does care about it. For my pronounciation, I just turn on a cassette tape containing passages and clear slow pronounciation of vocabularies and listen to them quite often. Because I hear it so often, its just stuck in my brain. But when it comes to new words, it takes quite a while to remember the pronounciation and say it out fluently. But I dont think pronounciation can be a big problem."</p>
<p>For most people I talk to, learning how to correctly pronounce tonal languages can be almost impossible for them. Many of them can spend forever and never learn it correctly. In tonal languges the words and their tone must be said exactly correct, any inncorrect tone usage destroys the meaning of the word, and most people who are not native speakers simply can not hear the difference between the different tone. While you can hear the difference, most can't.</p>
<p>I was just talking about the everyday conversational language (and some 'hard' vocabularies). My pronounciation isnt perfect. But it can be understood quite easily(based on my chinese teacher and some chinese native friends).</p>