About the Chinese learning For many leaners,that Chinese is quite hard to learn but,indeed,Chinese is an easier language.It seems hard,not for it is real hard,but for it is quite diffrent with English(French,German...).For a Japanese,to learn Chinese is easier than to learn English. Why should I say the Chinese is easy? One reason is that the characters you need to grasp are very few,only 2000 characters could make your chinese level become very well.And the most important characters even more few,The other reason is that the pinyin is more regular than the international phonetics.only one thing you should care is the four Chinese tone.To grasp the four Chinese tone is the key of speaking Chinese well.The Chinese characters are amazing and interesting.For example "忐忑",I consider you maybe don't know them.but "上、下、心"could be known by a learning beginner. "忐忑"'s meaning is sperturbed,worry,nervous,fear.When you in such mood,your heart will be up and down.So is it very vivid and easy to remember? The Chinese is literary.For example:"风送桃花过小桥”。Only seven characters just describe a piece of movie scene.And the artistic conception is more beautiful and meaningful.