In fact Idon't really do~ but sometimes ，I belive there's something just can explain by destiny

come China， and live with chinese。。。i think， to learn  a  language， environment is important。
o(∩_∩)o...。。Just have   passion on it ，that you can 、overcome all the diffculties of learning it <img alt="" src="http://www.italki.com/fckeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/wink_smile.gif" />加油！~good luck！~ 

it means does it pronounce like that . この文の 意味は"この はつおん は たたしい ですか". in cantoness "係"means yes,it pronounce like はい in japaness." "咪", pronounce like み "咁",pronounce like がん "讀"pronounce like ど infact, many japanese words pronounce like cantoness words and interprite the same meaning . 私の英語も日本語もよく　なぃ　だから, 以上の説明は分りですか. 私の説明が あなたに対して役に立つことを望みます .

in chinse, we haven't such cleat tense ,usually,we use some special words to express the tense. for example, we use "了"(le)after a verb to mean we had completed this action :我醒了wo3xing3le. i had woken up .or we use some characters before we say somethig, so that the listener can understand what we said had complete. if we want to express future tense we use words like ＂将要＂jiang1yao4＂打算＂da3suan4. for example，我将要去日本．wo3jiang1yao4qu4ri4ben3. i am going to japan. :)

surely, you should learn pingyin first, just like we learn english begin with abc(^.^)~~~jiayou~~fighting!

taiwanese, shanghainese and cantonese is different dialcets in china. they have different pronounciation and own special charaters. like in cantonese the character "抦" bing3 it means as the charater 打da3 in mandarine. it means beat.(^.^)you can surf this website http://www.520hai.com/yueyu.htm . ther is many different dialects learning course on it.

first download this input method, then intall it, and when you want to type chinese change your input mode into sogou input mode,. surely, you must know pingyin.