My friend turned me on to this. I've always wanted to learn Chinese but have been terrible at languages. Took Spanish for 3 years in high school.... and was a solid D student. I've been working on mandarin for about 3 days now and feel like I'm making some pretty decent progress, even better, my kids are REALLY interested in what I'm doing and have learned a few words as well and my son is writing little nonsense messages and giving them to my wife who is just like 'huh???' (messages like man-glass jar-glass jar-glass jar-sun).
I'm struggling a bit with the pinyin part of the exercises, I find it much easier to memorize the symbols and english translations, and I sometimes find it hard to tell the difference between a '2' and a '3' sound of pinyin.
But for a guy who has always failed at learning another language, I'm feeling just a little bit proud, all thanks to this website. They have many other languages as well BTW.
I'm struggling a bit with the pinyin part of the exercises, I find it much easier to memorize the symbols and english translations, and I sometimes find it hard to tell the difference between a '2' and a '3' sound of pinyin.
But for a guy who has always failed at learning another language, I'm feeling just a little bit proud, all thanks to this website. They have many other languages as well BTW.
