@AmandaAskell worth seeing a doctor! used to have a lot of nosebleeds, doctor chemically cauterised some surface blood vessels and now I don't get them anymore (took about two minutes of the doc poking a stick up my nose + felt mildly uncomfortable for a day after)
@mayaofspring turns out they change according to context - maybe too early for it now, but I found this on tone pairs super useful https://t.co/eW1jUTluPE
also so many people lie about third tone...
@cookiecarver nah in Shanghai they have soy milk with salt and seaweed and stuff in it, great for distressing people from other parts of China where they only drink it sweet