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The ending letter tells both consonant and pitch. The high short tones end with ''h'' ({{w|glottal stop}}), ''p'', ''t'' and ''k'', which are stops sounding similar to how they're used as an initial consonant. The low short tones end with ''q'', ''b'', ''d'', and ''g'', which are the same stops, respectively. | The ending letter tells both consonant and pitch. The high short tones end with ''h'' ({{w|glottal stop}}), ''p'', ''t'' and ''k'', which are stops sounding similar to how they're used as an initial consonant. The low short tones end with ''q'', ''b'', ''d'', and ''g'', which are the same stops, respectively. | ||
=== Review the | === Review all the tones === | ||
What happens when you put a vowel and tone together? You get a "final", the rear part of the syllable, everything but the initial consonant. It uniquely spells out the vowel, tone, and any consonant endings. | What happens when you put a vowel and tone together? You get a "[[Table of all finals in MTL|final]]", the rear part of the syllable, everything but the initial consonant. It uniquely spells out the vowel, tone, and any consonant endings. | ||
Take a look at | Take a look at [[:File:Taiwanese7Tones.pdf|this chart]] and see how much you can now read. Ignoring the tones, there are only about 30 commonly-used finals. After you know this chart, any syllable you see will just boil down to a final either with or without a consonant in front. | ||
If you noticed a few finals that are spelled a little differently from what we taught so far, we will explain those next. | If you noticed a few finals that are spelled a little differently from what we taught so far, we will explain those next. | ||