Is it possible to yell at someone in the Chinese language?
I don't understand how you could since I've read the inflection of each word actually creates a different word depending on whether the tone is slanting up, slanting down, high, low, middle, etc. Can you yell at someone in Chinese or a tonal language like you can in English?
@ tone is not the same as volume
I raise my volume all the time, like when speaking to a group. I do not sound like I am angrily yelling them.
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You seem to be confusing tone and intonation.
Each syllable in Mandarin Chinese has one of four tones ( there is also a neutral tone). Changing thse tones can cause a change in meaning.
Intonation is different. Chinese can raise the intonation towards the end of a sentence to indicate a question, just the same as English. It is therefore perfectly possible to talk angrily or lovingly or any of the full range of intonations available to an English speaker.
I take it you’ve never listened to a chinese grandmother.
Tone is not the same as volume.
sounds like you never yelled at anyone…
volume and yelling are different for any listener…
and no one yells in whisper, right?…
usual speech and aggressive speech are also different by the melody and the sentences….
different words are stressed…
in Chinese language they are stressed by pauses and loudness…
just as you do it in English…
you can understand it now, CAN"T YOU???