Here are some other links you might find useful. Tone pairs are pretty boring and hard work, but I do think they help a lot with getting the tones down. I personally did tone pair drills with a teacher who corrected me as we went, as well as practicing on my own with recordings.
Thanks Phillip those links are great! I now have some awesome resources to practice something I hate… haha. I am not enjoying doing this, but I can already see flaws in how I read things just by practicing for 15 mins this morning, so I will get better. 加油!
This is really interesting - would be great to hear what you think about these different resources. Tone pair practice software is something I have no experience with at all but sounds very interesting