Are there any language websites (I'm currently learning Mandarin Chinese and Spanish) I can use to practice my reading and conversations?

For example, my chinese book says "Do your mother and father both work" = "Ni mama he ni baba dou gongzuo ma?" BUT "Is that your older brother" you say "Na shi ni de gege ma" -- why only use "de" in the second instance?

I'm just a beginner Mandarin language learner and I find Chinese so beautiful! What do you think?

I want to learn chinese as my major. only problem is, my school doesn't offer chinese so i have no experience. If i go into college for chinese, will they start me off from square one?

I.e. a proper course or any materials; I am a beginner. Look for a low cost but excellent Chinese language programme that can take me up to a good level of Chinese language. Perhaps with options to progress further. Thank you very much!

I've heard that Chinese is one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn. Despite that, I want to learn it. I have no idea where to start, and how to start. Do you have any recommendations on books about learning Chinese? Software? CDs? Anything? Where should I start, I suppose, is the fundamental question.

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?

Is it really as hard to learn Chinese language as people say? How did you learn Chinese language, thru class/immersion/etc? Can you explain the different tones? How long did it take you to become fluent (at least on a basic level)? Is it worth it to learn Chinese language?

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?

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Please help me to find some web sites from which I can download free Chinese Pod cast suitable foe Newbies.

Website to learn Chinese.

I plan to take HSK in the future but now my level is too low to take a HSK exam. What can I do?