Thesis on tone perception! Need audios!

[Huang Jialuo]

Hi!

I am studying the way second-language speakers learn tone in chinese in terms of perception!

The thing is that I'm in need of native speaker audio files of single character/morpheme words! I will need to use this audios, so they should be downloadable!

Thanks!

Huang Jialuo

[liuzhou]

Your message is somewhat confusing.

When you say 'native speakers' do you mean native Chinese speakers?

[roddy]

Yes, he does.

[liuzhou]

Well, I wouldn't have thought that difficult. Almost every online dictionary has them.

Hence my confusion.

[Angelina]

You are Chinese, right?

I guess you need people whose native language is English.

[Hofmann]

So are you looking for a recording for every syllable?

[Huang Jialuo]

Yes! I'm looking for downloadable recordings of native chinese speakers saying one-syllable chinese words.

I've been looking around, but I've only found sites where I can listen to them, not download them.

[liuzhou]

I've only found sites where I can listen to them, not download them.

If you can listen to them you can download them. In fact, if you have listened to them, you have downloaded them.

Instead of clicking on the link to listen, click the right hand button then use "save linked content as" (sorry I don't have Chinese windows to hand and forget the exact equivalent).

[Ruben von Zwack]

Thing is, if they use Flash, right-click won't work. Of course there are ways of working around that, but it all can be a bit of a drag.

And another thought - I'm not so sure if it looks so good in a thesis paper to use kind of pirated material, or material where you cannot cite properly where you got it from.

Huang Jialuo, there is this blog "Sinosplice" and the guy who runs it has a "tone pair drill" for learners. It features a Chinese female voice reading out a lot of one-syllable words. When you download his exercise, you will get all the audio files too.

I wonder if you could just ask him if you can use his material.

Of course you can just go ahead, but IMO asking is nicer anyway, and if you're working on a university/school paper you might need to cite your source correctly.

And who knows, maybe he will even be happy to share some thoughts on tone learning with you?

http://www.sinosplic...e-pair-drills/3