Hi,

I took my eyes off the screen for a moment, to see something on my touchpad. After scribbling around for a few moments, I looked up to see the oddest tone:

http://imagebin.org/92186

Maybe I discovered Mandarin's secret sixth tone!

Have you heard the demonically possessed pronunciation of 冰 (bing1) yet? haha

Haha, that's great. I'd love to see some steps to reproduce!

I actually find that all those characters are really easy to remember, because I remember the BĪĪĪNG! Reminds me of First Tone as Foghorn: http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2008/02/where-not-to-look-for-beginning-mandarin-lessons/ (check the #1 place)

@mcfarljw: Demonically possessed? LOL.

The way the lady says yǒu​ keeps giving me flashbacks of the sounds in Doom II. Oh my!

I'm not saying it's a bad thing and I will certainly never forget it, but when it plays at 7AM when I'm doing a quick review it gets the heart beating. Nick, I remember from a past conversation you even go out of the way to repeat it as loudly as possible haha.

@nick: When I go deaf I will send you the bill for my hearing aid.

That link is very entertaining, BTW.

James

The man's voice for 保护 is very mellow, I wish we heard more of him.

Try 利率. Sounds a bit synthasised, though...

While fixing it so that you can use the erase button on tones, I stumbled upon and beheaded the probable cause of this sixth tone stroke. Upload soon!