Pinyin Practice

When I see new sites on the Web I immediately jump to thoughts like “how can I use this to teach/practice Chinese?” Spreeder.com is a speed reading online application that might have some potential for those who want to improve their reading speed or just want another way to practice. You will need some text first. I have uploaded a txt file containing the common 300 characters that I borrowed from David Porter’s Chinese Text Sampler. Just copy and paste it or any text into spreeder, set your speed and click the play button. The only problem is the program displays words as separated by spaces, so you will need to have spaces entered into text. With anything besides flashcard type practice, you will need to have spaces inserted at the word level. That’s not so easy to do, but it would be good practice.