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>>23651332
Chinese uses small symbols on top of the pinyin.
Pinyin is like romaji in Japanese.
These symbols determine the tones.
There are 4 tones + 1 neutral tone.

Chinese sounds weird to Europeans because of its phonology. Chinese is a tonal language, where the meaning of words is affected by the pitch of the speaker. A good example of tonality would be how you raise the pitch of the last word in English when you ask a question, except that it applies to all words individually in Chinese. Other languages may have tonal characteristics, but Japanese, for example, is not a tonal language.
So it's normal to be weirded out by Chinese pronunciation. It's fundamentally different to everything else you might've encountered in your life, so you have to get used to it.