Pinyin Practice

I was super excited to see this wikibooks entry, but unfortunately only two lessons seem to be built to a decent level. The lessons on pronunciation are also quite nice — except for the obvious lack of sound. For all the years I taught and learned Chinese, I never thought to teach the third tone as different before first and second tones, but it seems right. Take a look at the tones section to see what I’m talking about: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chinese.

I downloaded moodle the other week to see if I could figure out a way to offer an online Chinese class. I thought this might be the perfect text solution, but it’s not ready yet… and so I keep searching.