I WILL GO TO NEW ZEALAND ON FEBRUARY. I WANT TO CELEBRATE MY BIRTHDAY IN SOUTHERN ALPS. I WILL BE GOING WITH MY MOTHER. WE WILL BE SPENDING MOST OF OUR TIME IN CHRISTCHURCH. IT’S GOING TO BE REALLY FUN. I AM SO EXCITED. LEARNING CHINESE IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT IS ONE OF THE MAJOR LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD. ANYWHERE, THERE’S ALWAYS CHINESE. THIS LANGUAGE IS VERY USEFUL IN BUSINESS AS WELL. MOST OF MY FRIENDS SPEAK MANDARIN SO IT IS VERY BENEFICIAL FOR ME.

Not TOO fast, clear and catchy songs would be preferable.

I'm learning to speak the basics of Chinese (Mandarin not Cantonese) and am worrying about the writing part. I'm learning the romanised form of spelling as I go along, not the symbols they use. If I wrote in this would it still be understood? The reason I'm learning this is because I love China and plan on living there or holidaying there later on in life (I'm 18 years of age).

Hi. I am writing something for Chinese School. It's sort of...bad, but anyway, if anyone speaks/reads Chinese could you please proofread? I'm not very good with grammar... 在20年来，我赢了彩票。我不知道我是怎么赢了彩票。 有了这笔钱我收到来自彩票，我会生活得很幸福。我会住在巧克力做成的房子。我将拥… 30。生活会好的。 And no yelling at me for writing something so weird.

I need to know how to write it in pinyin. Thanks!

I am probably going to move on to upper level German soon but at the same time I'd like to start learning Spanish or Mandarin. Would that be a bad idea? Does learning a language as different as those two from the ones I have been studying mean my understanding o them may become skewed (start getting syntax and pronunciations wrong)?

Either answer, I am told that I have that gift ( I don't really mean to brag about it) because I picked up speaking chinese (a lot of native chinese speakers say that I speak as good as a native, but I don't think so) and reading it too in about a year, but I'm still not fluent in it. I also try to teach myself German, Spanish, Japanese, along with Mandarin. I will learn other languages in the future though, its because I really love languages and I really want to have the opportunity to get to travel someday.

And do any of you have any good song recommendations that are Mandarin (not really old ones)

Ok. I'm thinking of taking up Chinese as my third language in Secondary school. What do I learn and what would be tested in the 'O' Level?

Well, I have a friend. He is from the People's Republic of China (Taiwan). And he wants to go to Spain. He is also interested in learning Spanish. However, I am a Mexican, who is interested in learning Chinese (Mandarin dialect), because I would like to visit parts of East Asia sometime like Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mainland China, S. Korea, Japanese (I am also trying to learn Japanese btw). Well, I have done some research on the Chinese language, and what I liked is that I heard that the grammar is very simple. I like that because I am not really good at grammar, and don't normally like to mess with that stuff so much. Well, I have gotten some books and tapes from the Library that teach Chinese, on and off for months now, and well, some things I noticed:

And I don't mean fireman

Can you tell the pinyin for the first letters of these sentences? I am not able to break this hint

I know it's Mandarin Chinese, I just don't know what it means. Help me please.