listen and speak. sometimes remembering the tones is a burden. you can't remember a number, do some math and then talk.

speak chinese like a baby,; practice more,; talk with native speaker; enjoy it.

practice! the best way is practicing it with the native speaker. you can talk with them though skype and msn and so on. if you are really interested in it. you can make calls to me. my skype username is "meicale" and my msn is "[email protected]". you can also contact with me by QQ. and my QQ number is 1162819796.

I used to obsess on what tone it was for each word, but I found the best way is to listen to people and try to copy their pronunciation exactly, you will find the tone just comes along naturally.

first you should love chinese then do some practices and speak them loudly (don't be shy ,don't afraid of making mistakes) its the way im studying english (*^__^*)