Mandarin tones by your first language
Published research on which tones are hardest for speakers of each first language. Pick yours.
- Arabic — hardest: —
- Bengali — hardest: —
- Burmese — hardest: —
- Cantonese — hardest: 4th tone, 1st tone, 2nd tone, 3rd tone
- Dutch — hardest: —
- English — hardest: 2nd tone, 3rd tone
- Finnish — hardest: —
- French — hardest: 3rd tone
- German — hardest: 2nd tone, 1st tone
- Greek — hardest: —
- Hmong — hardest: 2nd tone, 1st tone
- Hungarian — hardest: —
- Indonesian — hardest: 2nd tone, 3rd tone
- Italian — hardest: 2nd tone, 3rd tone
- Japanese — hardest: 3rd tone
- Khmer — hardest: —
- Korean — hardest: 3rd tone, 2nd tone
- Polish — hardest: —
- Portuguese — hardest: —
- Russian — hardest: 2nd tone, 3rd tone
- Spanish — hardest: 3rd tone
- Swahili — hardest: —
- Swedish — hardest: —
- Thai — hardest: 2nd tone
- Turkish — hardest: —
- Vietnamese — hardest: 4th tone
- Yoruba — hardest: —
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