Right now my first language is English so I thought French would be easier because it is also a Western laguage, but Chinese might be more useful because it has the most speakers and China is the largest country and the fastest growing.

I mean I know it’s totally different from all other languages but if you focus and stuff is it really hard to learn plus any tips on learning it tanks!!! :)

I'm attending University.. I'd like to learn Chinese and I am planning on independent study + moving to China for a few years. I think that if I attended classes in Chinese, it may help some, but I will learn much more quickly in China and such that it's probably not worth it. I had already been focusing on Spanish. What do you all think? Should I attend Chinese classes, or no?

Hi can you please give me the right name of house md in Chinese?

My friend is a half Chinese, and she gives me a letter that have a Chinese symbol and she said that is the meaning of that.

我是在澳洲出生的, 来北京己经一年了. 因为我来北京以前不会说中文, 所以在北京刚开始学习的时猴觉得比较难. 我现在在北京大学学习翻译课, 这对我将来的工作一定会很大的帮助. 除了学中文和翻译以外, 我还学习中国历史和经济. 我明年天毕业, 毕业以后我要回澳洲我工作.

There's this boy on my bus who I really want to be friends with. There's only one problem...he doesn't understand English. So what I need to do is learn Chinese. Help please? Maybe some of you can give me basic phrases like "Good Morning" or "How are you?" "Our next class is over here" That type of stuff. Oh and if there's anything that you know that's related to school please tell me. By this I mean things that you might say to people in school.

I want to learn some survival Chinese so that I can communicate in Chinese when I go to China.

I plan to travel to China during China's National Day holiday. I have no knowledge of Chinese whatsoever and I want to learn travel Chinese. Any suggestions?

So, i'm Chinese-american, but as I was young, i learned a bit of Chinese from my grandma, who I guess either taught me wrong, or had an accent. everyone always complains when I speak Chinese, saying I sound Taiwanese, and or just plain american and that I say everything wrong. so here's my question. How can I learn Chinese pronunciation better? I don't understand the tones for pinyin, they all sound alike for me, can someone give me a quick lesson, or point me in the direction I want to go to learn better pronunciation? I want to be also able to have an accent, so that when I go to Taiwan next year, they won't know i'm from America...

I need help translating this English phrase into Mandarin Chinese. I realize there are a plethora of online translators but not everything transcribes correctly. So I know there are both traditional and simplified ways of doing this. If someone could translate: "Love knows no boundaries" into both traditional and simplified Mandarin Chinese it would be very helpful! Also, if someone could supply the Chinese characters for this quote I would highly appreciate it! Please no jokers giving me a fake translation. Save my time and yours because I'll be double checking it as best I can with an online translator. Thanks!

Tomorrow I'm going to one of my student's birthday parties (I taught three Chinese teenagers how to speak basic English) but their parents don't speak ANY English whatsoever. There MAY be someone who can translate back and forth, but I doubt it. I need help with very basic Chinese. I can say 我的名字是 Gabbie and 你好吗？, thank you and that's about it. All I REALLY need to know is how to say.

I'm having trouble understanding this short Chinese sentence. I'm sure it says something about suffering or sad people. I would appreciate it if someone who speaks Chinese could translate this for me completely, since online translators are often wrong. Thanks for the help :) 痛苦让人深思

Hi there, can someone help me read this? I don't quite understand. Please no software translations please, Thanks 小林先生，我不需要和你生气 I don't understand what the person is trying to say

I need the following to be translated into Chinese (Xiang) and I need to know the symbols please: "Women hold up half the sky"

I want to learn Mandarin Chinese, I used Google to learn some simplistic sayings and the different tones.

I am interested in learning this language. Any suggestions on which books/cds to buy which teaches a lot and can somehow spark my interest in the language and culture more?