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I love she teaching the kid Chinese. Chinese is a tonal language, it's basically like musical training. It's why nearly half of Chinese musicians have Absolute/Perfect Pitch while only 1% of the rest of the western world's musicians do. It's why it's rare to hear a Chinese person sing off-tune and why there are so many good Chinese violinists (an instrument that doesn't have frets to locate pitches).
Since Chinese is a tonal language, do all Chinese speakers know how to sing?
Sara Lynn Hua's answer: The short answer - No. The long answer is that while not all Chinese speakers can sing, Chinese speakers are more likely to have good relative pitch or perfect pitch compared to Western speakers. In a study done by scientists at UC San Diego, they found that perfect pitc...www.quora.com
Are Chinese Speakers More Likely To Have Perfect Pitch?
Only about 1 in 10,000 people in the West have perfect pitch, but recent studies show that Mandarin speakers may be nine times more likely to possess it.blog.tutorabcchinese.com
Western music is based around 7 tones (do-re-me-f-so-la-ti), Chinese everyday language/way-of-life is based around 12 tones.
I already know that child is going to have sharp ears the way she understands her mother and was speaking Chinese to her at the start. Musical training should be pursued from here to really nourish her ability. She has a very distinct advantage.
This has nothing to do with the post, but it’s very interesting
I’ve always heard that English is the “dumbest” language in terms of accessing brain potential, as well as the least effective language to utilize the spoken word for manifestation.
We all should really know multiple languages
Yeah, the English language is actually really good system because it's simple. The people who came up with it made good decisions as people can pick it up really quickly/easily. However, many Western languages do next to nothing for each person's brain.
Somebody who speaks a tonal language got all the advantages and then some once they learn English. It's why it's so easy for them to learn English, but it's why English-only people have a very difficult time learning a more tonal language. It's cosmically different and requires other parts of the brain.
It also does make for some very condensed, quick reading. Apparently many textbooks written in Chinese are compact and less verbose. I do think there's something very efficient about tonal languages once someone gets it, learning it is just the difficult part.
It's only something I found interesting in the video because I saw the mother and daughter talking to each other in her native tongue. A lot of immigrants here lose their native language to their own detriment as they dumb down to adopt English as their main language.
China, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia and Central America have the most intricate tonal languages. Navajo is apparently the most complex language to learn. So if someone can speak that fluently, most other languages are probably a piece of cake.
Thai, Igbo, Yòrúba, Punjabi (to a lesser extent), Zulu and Navajo are all tonal-based. When I realized these cats communicate musically
So that "Ching Chong Bing Bong" is more like musical training every day for them.
You cats gonna make me learn chinese
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