bendan [none/use name]

Tone is maybe the thing that varies the most between dialects, so don’t be discouraged if something is hard to hear. Listen and imitate.

1. ā - like singing a note
2. á - like a question
3. ǎ - dark, aim for vocal fry
4. à - like you’re angry, “fuck!”

While most learning materials describe tone 3 as falling-rising, that is contextual and only happens in isolation, at the end of a sentence, or for emphasis. In all other cases it is best understood simply as a low tone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Chinese_phonology

https://chinesetest.cn/

They’ve updated it a bunch, but the “Pleco” dictionary is actually based on a Chinese-made dictionary that had originally plenty of old timey examples from communist slogans and such

admittedly a rather gay drama but w/e (word of honor)