I am going to be taking a Mandarin Chinese class at the University of Oklahoma and I am very excited!!! Its going to be very interesting. I love the Chinese culture and I am going to have a bloody good time. I just thought I would let you guys/gals know!!!  Lol.

good luck! learning another language is REALLy fun. i speak fluent spanish as well.

Thanks! I am very excited to learn! Its going to be amazing!

I bet knowing Spanish has come in handy a few times, eh? 

Ni hao!

Wo ye xue zhong wen! Ke shi, wo shuo de bu hao ;) 

 

I would like to recommend you the "Pimsleur" courses. There's no material better than that. You simply learn by listening. Also, www.ChinesePod.com is a great resource and comes at a resonable price.

 

Greetins,

Roman 

romanski wrote:

Ni hao!

Wo ye xue zhong wen! Ke shi, wo shuo de bu hao ;) 

 

I would like to recommend you the "Pimsleur" courses. There's no material better than that. You simply learn by listening. Also, www.ChinesePod.com is a great resource and comes at a resonable price.

 

Greetins,

Roman 

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Bu yao pa, man man xue jiu hui hao. Jia you!

Thanks! I bought my textbooks today and I can't wait to go to class on Monday!

I can speak English,double dutch,american and australian. oh and a lot of gibberish.

Just joking, good luck at uni. 

Thanks!

erik wrote: good luck! learning another language is REALLy fun. i speak fluent spanish as well.

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REALLY FUN? I wish I saw it this way. I strugle with my french and find it frustrating. However, newly single I've a new motavation that is pushing me along rather fast (;

 

I admire all of you who find language so fun easy!

 

All the best in your pursuit verusamo!

je ces't pas,  "I like other languages but i find i need to keep speeking them or writing them or i lose them, just look at my french and you can tell Eh!!! 

I can be speechless in seven languages...I was onced very much in love with a young lady from Wentzhou, China and I started learning some Wentzhounese from her. Same word but intoned in three different ways meant three different things. Her mom didn't like the idea of a son-in-law who she couldn't easily communicate with, and so I failed the family test. Anyway, i didn't find the pronunciation too difficult but I can't say the same thing about intonation.

i find some people just have a knack for learning other languages. personally i was never very good at it. but i'm trying to learn german at school, but i'm finding it a bit difficult.

I haven't been on in quite a while because of college, but now I am back!

 I hate my Chinese class! Lol!

I thought I would like it, but I was horribly mistaken.

I am switching my foreign language class to German next semester. 

I remembered Heinrich Schliemann to be a great polyglot but couldn't remember how many languages he spoke, in my search I came up on this :

http://www.worldsgreatestpolyglot.com/

 

Wish you were one of these, no? Me too... record is said to be 189 languages...!!!

 

" I hate my Chinese class! Lol!

I thought I would like it, but I was horribly mistaken.

I am switching my foreign language class to German next semester"

 

Learning a language is never nice when you are just starting, once you start to pick it up a bit, understand how it works and are able to write and communicate a minimum, then the fun starts. 

 

Yeah, when I take German I am going to pay attention as much as possible, so I understad it more.

Malay is an easy to learn for us English speakers since many English words were Incorporated during colonial times, having said that i got bored of learning it after picking up the basics.  My knowledge of it slowly seeps away.

I have a friends little sister (they are from the philippines) who has started teaching me tagalog the main philippino language which is cool but i tell u its tough to learn especialy to write it down and still make sure your pronounciation is correct as well but im having fun learning.....

Good luck. I've been at it 6 years. Can never learn enough. With some friends wrote a program found at www.activechinese.com, and arranged direct lessons via Internet. Of course we hope to make something, but a labour like that is mainly for love...

 

 

 Can anyone recommend a Chinese Chess Internet site?