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Hello, welcome to learn Chinese with me. 
Now can you try to say hello in Chinese? 
[FOREIGN]. 
[FOREIGN]. 
Now let's know more about each other. 
[FOREIGN].
Play video starting at 19 seconds and follow transcript0:19[FOREIGN]. 
[FOREIGN], and my name is Liu Xiaoyu. 
[FOREIGN] Liu Xiaoyu. 
Have you noticed the little marks above the syllables? 
They are tone marks. 
There are four tones in Chinese. 
Here they are.
The first one is high and flat one, For example, mother in Chinese is ma.
Play video starting at 51 seconds and follow transcript0:51Flower is [FOREIGN], The second one is a rising tone [FOREIGN] in the centers was your name [FOREIGN]. 
A third one is [FOREIGN].
But we cannot pronounce like that because we don't have enough time when we speak. 
So we can only pronounce part of that. 
For example [FOREIGN] and in [FOREIGN] we 
can only pronounce the lower part [FOREIGN]. 
Not [FOREIGN] and my name is [FOREIGN] not [FOREIGN]. 
A fourth one is a falling one.
In my name is [FOREIGN] 
tone can distinguish meaning in Chinese. 
For example, if you want to say, may I ask you, [FOREIGN]. 
[FOREIGN] means to ask. 
If you pronounce like [FOREIGN] 
that sounds I want to kiss you so we need more practice. 
Let's take six single finals 
for practice [FOREIGN].
[FOREIGN]. 
Here, we don't pronounce as A as and it's ahh as well. 
It's [FOREIGN]. 
And last group 
is [FOREIGN]. 
As in my name, Liu Xiaoyu. 
That's this one, [FOREIGN], it's not [FOREIGN]. 
[FOREIGN].