Немного информации о себе. Привет! Меня зовут Maртa. Мне двадцать два года. Я из Испании и я живу в Сарагосе. Я менеджер сообщества (в Интернете). В кóлледже я изучал историю искусств. Я люблю читать, путешествовать и фотографировать. Я хочу выучить русский язык потому что я хочу общаться с русскоязычными. Это моя первая попытка с русскими. (Any constructive criticism, corrections and advice on how to make this information sound more "natural" would be highly appreciated. Note: I've just started learning Russian, so I'm not familiar with its Grammar yet.)

Learning basic Mandarin Chinese 你好 I have decided to start studying Mandarin Chinese, but I haven't attended any lessons yet and I wouldn't dare to practice with a native speaker, because I feel it would be a bother considering that I can't speak the language at all. I'm starting with pinyin, but my pronunciation is terrible. Could you please recommend me any websites, apps... any methods, in general, to start learning on my own? I plan to take lessons, maybe here with a teacher here via italki, but something to help me practice anytime by myself would be great too. Any tips you found useful when you started studying Chinese? Any piece of advice is welcome. Thank you very much in advance. Xièxiè