You mean because the systems are different you are having trouble? Are you doing Traditional Chinese characters or Simplified Chinese characters? You really haven't stated your problem clearly at all! You need two books: 1. Heisig: Remembering the Kanji (Japanese) 2. Heisig: Remembering the Simplified Hanzi (Simplified Chinese) ...or... Heisig: Remembering the Traditional Hanzi (Traditional Chinese) If you tell me clearly what your problem is I can assist you further.

I minored in Chinese at the university level, and my recommendation for you is to first learn radicals, than focus on the most commonly used characters. There are a limited number of radicals, and after you have them memorized, it makes studying the characters themselves somewhat easier. After you get these characters down, branch out to what interests you. You can find some books on Amazon for the most commonly used characters in Chinese speech/writing. If you have a Macintosh, I would recommend Provoc. Although support is discontinued, it's still available free on the internet. It was an absolutely indispensable part of my Chinese studies during college. You can type in the character, the english, and add the pinyin in the comments. When you review, it can organize Characters that you have incorrect the most, and you can label parts of speech. Repetition, repetition, repetition. It's how many of the Chinese students that I taught in China learned their first characters. As for grammar, Chinese doesn't have a truly set grammar except for Subject - Time - Place - Action (although there are variants of this). There are a lot of different grammar patterns in Chinese, so it's important to focus on the patterns and get them down so you can produce them automatically without thinking, and then move to other patterns. There are also Chinese grammar pattern books in Amazon. Best of luck.

Could you tell me your problem more in detail?

http://www.chinesedic.com/en/ This dictionary's really good, you can enter a word in pinyin, in English, in French or in Chinese characters and find its meaning.

you can find some basic mterial in internet. or learn from chinese teacher who can explain the word in english. such as 我(wo) means i, 你(ni) means you， 我的(wo de): my mine, 你的(ni de):your yours