Mandarin singers to learn Chinese tones & pronunciation?

[twinmatrix]

Who are some good Mandarin singers for learning the Chinese tones and pronunciation?

 

I take walks a lot and would like to listen to more Mandarin music to learn this, but singers like A Mei just sing too fast. I don't understand at all. Also, I think they change the tones for the melody, so it becomes useless.

 

Who would be good to listen to for actually learning?

[Flickserve]

Who are some good Mandarin singers for learning the Chinese tones and pronunciation?

.....Also, I think they change the tones for the melody, so it becomes useless.

Who would be good ...?

by that you might be better off not using songs!!

But I advise going for slow songs rather than singer. You can try Emil Chau. Those are ok.

[Xiao Kui]

tones kind of go out the window when it comes to singing (i feel like this is a good thing , so songs are not good for learning tones.

[curry]

I think a good singer for learning new words/phrases, etc. from songs is Teresa Teng/鄧麗君. Her Chinese is very clear, and the songs are usually not very fast. But of course, as Xiao Kui said, you cannot learn tones from the songs.

[Lu]

Seconding the suggestion of 邓丽君, she has beautiful pronunciation. But tones you can't learn from songs, not even from Deng Lijun.

[Shelley]

I would definitely suggest finding some other way of learning tones. Trying to learn tones from singing is probably the worst way to do it. I once asked my first chinese teacher what happened to tones in chinese singing and her reply was pretty much "tones, what tones?" apparently tones get left behind in pursuit of a beautiful tune.

 

Listen to lots of chinese, get something like Pimsleur or some podcasts and listen - repeat,  listen - repeat. Record your self and compare you tones with the original and keep at it.

 

Its a nice idea to be able to do 2 things at once, sing nice songs and learn tones but its not that simple

[twinmatrix]

Ah, that is a shame. I practically taught myself English and Japanese just by listening to music all day every day (I'm Dutch).

 

So there is no kid singer either? Kinda like Boku wa Kuma style.

 

Will still look up your suggestions, though! Thank you! It'll be nice to mindlessly get a better "feeling" of the language when I'm taking a walk or working.

 

Its a nice idea to be able to do 2 things at once, sing nice songs and learn tones but its not that simple

Haha! You read my mind.

 

I have Pimsleur but it's more of an interactive thing where they have you repeat the words over and over.

It's great! But I can't multi-task it. Maybe during cooking. MAYBE. Lol

[歐博思]

Learning Chinese with songs is like learning cooking watching Iron Chef....

 

...for entertainment only...