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.

I want to get a tattoo of it and i found a four character translation, but I want to know if there's a one character translation.

Those who would like to learn English in exchange for teaching Chinese, Ph.D student at Cornell can help. Email ken_charoen@hotmail.com

since my little town hasn't any.Which book should i buy.If it has a dvd or something there is no problem.(the problem is i have to know very good english to traslate :P)

Hey I Have a project for chinese class and I'm a beginner in the chinese language so I have the easiest project but it isn't so easy for me I've been researching for hours now but I found nothing about that so I was hoping someone could help me cuz this is really important to me and it takes up half the mark of my report card and im in ib which is really hard for me btw it would be gr8 if u know'em in mandarin but if you don't it's ok! Thanks!