How many tones are there in spoken English? I feel there are five tones in spoken English, four of which are almost the same as four tones in Mandarin, though I'm not sure. The tone of an unstressed syllable in English is the same as the 3rd tone in Mandarin, while that of a stressed syllable is almost the same as the 1st or 4th tone in Mandarin. A rising tone in English is almost the same as the 2nd tone in Mandarin. Are there any native English speakers who also know the Chinese language well? Do you agree with me?Compared to spoken English, spoken Chinese is easy to learn, I think. In order to pronounce a Chinese sentence corretly, you just need to know how to prounce each Chinese character in the sentence. Therefore, a Chinese dictionary is enough to handle almost all your problems about pronunciation. However, spoken English is far more difficult to learn. If I pronounce a sentence by pronouncing the words in it one by one, it will sound odd and cannot even be understood by native speakers. However, to my surprise, not many learners of Chinese as a second language speak Chinese without errors in tone.