I think the first thing everyone hears about Chinese is something to the effect of "be sure you get every tone right, otherwise 'Can you go to the store and pick up some tomatoes' sounds like 'I'm gonna fuck your mother tonight'", but it seems like when I'm listening to people speak, they generally talk so fast I find it hard to believe even a native listener will be able to pick out the specific tones of every syllable. Especially since I often notice speakers occasionally drop off whole syllables in some cases.
It seems like tones become the most important with "si", "shi" and "ci" sounds, since there are so many words made with exclusively those sounds and different tones, but otherwise a lot of it is contextual. Can anyone help shine some light on this for me?
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