Third tone combinations
To practise your ability to discriminate between tones it helps to listen to tone combinations.
Below are examples of two tone combinations containing a third tone. Notice then when two third tones follow each other the first is pronounced as a second tone.
Click on each set to listen.
| 3-1 |
| 老师，北京，手机 |
| 3-2 |
| 语言，小孩，小时 |
| 3-3 |
| 你好, 法语，几点 |
| 3-4 |
| 请问, 米饭, 礼物 |
| 3-0 |
| 哪里, 你们，小姐 |
| 1-3 |
| 英语，一点，一起 |
| 2-3 |
| 啤酒, 牛奶，如果 |
| 4-3 |
| 上海，父母，物理 |
Listen to each example containing the second tone, then indicate the tones you heard. There are 10 examples altogether.
1 of 10
| 3 - 1 |
| 3 - 2 |
| 3 - 3 |
| 3 - 4 |
| 3 - 0 |
| 1 - 3 |
| 2 - 3 |
| 4 - 3 |
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