These lessons examine "tonal cousins": groups of semi-homophone characters that have the same pronunciation, but may or may not have the same tone. Simply click on the appropriate tone for each character and improve your tonal production and recognition.
toneandcolor
said on January 18, 2009
This quiz tests the syllables [hui] and [hua]. Many of the characters should be familiar from the first year of study, but there are a few less common bound characters thrown in to keep things interesting.
veritas21
said on January 18, 2009
Good test, thanks a lot toneandcolor. Ended up with 13/15 after flubbing the tone on 灰 and making a wild guess on 贿.
winslowtt
said on January 18, 2009
Good test. I'd also never run into 贿.
xiaoxin
said on January 19, 2009
@toneandcolor,您好！我是一个中国人，也是一个汉语教育爱好者。我看到您的自我介绍里介绍到您创作的一本用颜色标注声调的汉语教材，觉得非常有意思，构思也很新颖。不知道您能不能在这里介绍一下那本书还有您的教学方式呢？
toneandcolor
said on January 21, 2009
@xiaoxin
谢谢您的评论。您过奖了。我总是愉快地接受汉语教育爱好者的批评。如果还有什么问题，就发邮件给我：toneandcolor [at] gmail [dot] com.
