system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How do people sing in tonal languages? If the melody is falling but the tone of the word is rising, how does that work?
gpt
At least in Chinese the tone of the word is ignored. You just follow the melody. The context will take care of identifying the correct meaning of the word. Also, most of the time the text is displayed in subtitles (on TV, DVD etc.).