Any Chinese person here can answer my question? :)

  • So I know Cantonese and Mandarin are tonal languages and it makes me wonder how that work in songs?

    I have heard that many Mandarin songs drop the tone and prioritize the melody in contrast to the majority of Thai songs (since it’s also a tonal language) which mostly persevere the tone. My question is:

    if the tone is not persevered, can you understand the meanings of the song?


    btw I am not talking about classical or traditional songs but rather songs like wayv’s for example.


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    Changed the title of the thread from “Any Chinese here to answer my question? :)” to “Any Chinese person here can answer my question? :)”.
  • Yes, weirdly enough even if the tone is not preserved I can understand.


    But my chinese vocabulary isn't that good compared to mainland chinese (I'm Singaporean Chinese) so sometimes I don't know what words they are saying. Even with Chinese subtitles if those words are words I haven't seen before I wouldn't know it. Especially if the songs are fast paced.


    Ballads I can understand them better like if it's slow. Then again most Chinese songs are slow love songs not like WayV's


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