@darker You are right but the tones play an important role in making deference between words in mandarin

Nah, how can a language be 100% denpendent on tones when you can whisper in it? lol

I am a Chinese student, I can teach you Chinese. And I also want to learn English. We can learn together

I have some knowledge about phonetics (and of course tones, tone sandhi). I can help you if needed.

I think the accuracy of expression in Chinese depends on many aspects. Of course, the tone is very important part in Chinese . You can express totally different meaning by the same word with different tones . But except for the tone ,the mordal particle is Important else. It'll make you express more natively and accurately .😉 I look forward to having a nice chat with u .If u have WeChat, welcome to contact me via ThunderboltXu.(A little stupid name😫)