I'm 16, and I really want to take Chinese. I don't have it at my school, but I was thinking of taking it outside of school. How much are Chinese classes usually, and is it really hard to learn?

I plan to learn at least nine languages in my hopefully long lifetime. Would it be reasonable to devote 10 years into studying each language? Since I really don't think I could I spend just a few years on each and hope to become extremely fluent. Well here is my list on what I plan to learn Arabic French German Greek Hebrew Japanese Korean Latin Mandarin Chinese

I want a tattoo of one of these, but i can’t find any of them.

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?

this is for my own personal education im curious as to how close i am to translating this correctly anyone out there who has the time to translate this it is much appreciated. Alright here it is: I went to Seattle for my holiday because I have family and friends that live there as well as a house. I lived in Seattle before I moved to Bei Jing this is why I frequently visit. I stayed in Seattle for three weeks at my old house. During this time I saw many old friends, snowboarded and family members from australia came and visited. My grandmother and grandfather on my mother side came from sydney to share christmas with us. An aunt and uncle also stayed for a few weeks in our house with us. My eldest sister came with her boyfriend on christmas. Both of them already live America. There are mountains to snowboard on within 30 minutes of my house. My favorite part of my holiday was seeing my old friends. Many of them can drive which made it easy to see a lot of them. Christmas and New Years were also fun with my family.

to study chinese. When will this course ?Can u tell me?

I would like to express measure comparisons in chinese such as: This car costs twice as much as the other one. Today there are three times as many birds as yesterday. I have half as much money as my brother.

How do you say it? Or [are you ok now?] Thanks

I have been interested in a few languages over the years, but come across the same problem: I don't know where to begin. Anyone have any ideas?

Starting with Shang Dynasty. I am interested in Chinese culture and I want to know the orders of the Chinese dynasty. My daughter is 9 and I hope she can learn some kids Chinese. So I want to know some good kids Chinese websites for her.

Seems like a useful phrase to know in China. Can someone tell me the characters as well as the pinyin with tones?

I've always liked both Chinese and Japanese languages. As it is, I watch a ton of anime on a regular basis, but I'm currently learning Chinese in college. I'm wondering what kind of media there is out there that is in Chinese which I could use as a learning aid. Something that would appeal to male youth, not necessarily soap operas with bad acting or children's cartoons. What's out there?

im trying to create my own cover for my ipod and i want to put life on the back in Chinese. Whenever I look it up on the interent, they give me different symbols and i dont want to put the wrong symbol on it and think it means something else. Also, is it two symbols or just one? And if it is two, is there a way I can just put one part of the symbol and it still mean life? Thanx

其實...我在國外因為我父母出國工作.為了有個好生意 what i'm trying to say is that i'm out of the country because in order to get/have a good business, my parents work abroad. or i'm out of the country because my parents work abroad in order to get/have a good business.

Hey, I decided I might start learning Chinese the thing is that, some things don’t make sense to me. First of all, is pinyin ONLY written with English letters? So there are no symbols or marks or anything for pinyin, except that it’s written in Latin letters? Also, I read that simplified Chinese are more used than traditional Chinese. So, if I go to China, or any Chinese speaking country, or if I watch a movie about China, everything that's written in stores, streets, schools, books, EVERYTHING, is in simplified Chinese? Also, how does u read Chinese? Any website that could help me? Do u just learn chinese by MEMORIZING what each symbol is? and what about writing? it seems to me like it would take me like 5 hours to only draw ONE symbol and if i see a random symbol, how do i know how to pronounce it? and how do i know what it means? Any online Chinese dictionaries?