If Chinese Mandarin is a tonal language, then how can people understand modern Chinese songs?

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If Chinese Mandarin is a tonal language, then how can people understand modern Chinese songs?

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As someone who’s studied both linguistics and music theory, I can tell you as an absolute certainty the two have nothing to do with each other. Tonality is the ‘direction’ of a vowel as you pronounce it, it’s entirely possible to pronounce tonal vowels correctly while singing on key.

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