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I'm learning Mandarin, it's very hard.


So it's been a couple of days into my chinese mandarin learning. I haven't found a place to study yet, just doing some traveling before I still down and find a school. I think its a better situation here, because not many people seem to speak English so I will be forced to speak chinese on a daily basis to convey what I want.


Mandarin has 5 tones, which a new learner first has to get to grips with if they're not familiar with tonal languages.
Coming from learning Thai it's not such an issue. Some of the sounds are quite hard to imitate particularly, and gonna take me a while to get a hold on. I have to say one major incentive for me learning, is that the girls here are seriously cute :) So one day would be nice having a conversation with them that extends beyond the basics.

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I'm writing this post from my hostel in Taipei, Taiwan. I've set myself a new challenge and this is to learn Chinese mandarin in 6 months. Of course, I don't hope to be proficient in the language in 6 months, but by 6 months at least be speaking if not reading and writing a little. I shall still try to keep up the Thai blog post at least fortnightly, but apologies in advanced if the posts are ridden with language errors - due to my lack of practicing Thai on a daily basis. But, it in order to preserve my link with the Thai language, I shall be making an effort to listen to some of the radio stations and reading other people's blogs.

Meanwhile, if anyone has some good recommendations for books they would be most welcome to either email me or post here. Hopefully I can start another blog for learning Chinese in the not too distant future :)

谢谢