🏠 Home / 📅 All Days / Day 5 🔤 Phase 1: Foundation — Sound & Script
5 / 365
1%

🀄 Day 5 — Tone Pairs — Tone 4 Combinations + 不/一 Sandhi

Phase: Phase 1 | Milestone: Foundation — Sound & Script


⏱️ Today’s Session (1 Hour)

BlockTimeActivity
Review0:00–0:15Anki / Pleco SRS flashcards
New Content0:15–0:45Today’s lesson + exercises
Listening0:45–0:55Audio immersion / shadowing
Output0:55–1:00Speak or write original Chinese

📖 Review (15 min)

🆕 New Content (30 min)

Tone 4 Pairs (Tone 4 + X)

PairExamplePinyinMeaning
4 + 1大哥dà gēbig brother
4 + 2太难tài nántoo difficult
4 + 3不好bù hǎonot good
4 + 4大叫dà jiàoto shout
4 + 5太太tài taiwife

⚠️ 不 (bù) Sandhi

⚠️ 一 (yī) Sandhi

✏️ Exercises

  1. Tone 4 Imitation: 5 pairs × 5 cycles.
  2. 不 Sandhi Drill: bù hǎo, bú shì, bù duō, bú yào, bù lái. Say 10× each.
  3. 一 Sandhi Drill: yí gè, yì tiān, yì běn, yì nián. Say 10× each.
  4. Record: All 20 tone pair combinations. This is your master tone recording.

🎧 Listening (10 min)

🎧 ChinesePod Newbie — listen for 不 and 一. How do native speakers say them?

🗣️ Output (5 min)

📱 Record all 20 tone pairs. Save as “Day 5 — All 20 Pairs.”


📋Day 5 Checklist0/5