First notebook entry: Introducing myself Hi there: I am a native of Thailand who live in the US for couple years. My mother langauge is Thai, and English is my second langauge. I would like to learn Mandarin Chinese because I have cousin in Mainland China. It was a shame that I have to talk to my cousin using English langauges in stead of Chinese. My grandparents were from China, but I've never learn Chinese in school so I cannot speak Chinese at all. In my family, sometimes my grandparents spoke Chinese with dialect, not the Mandarin. Since I want to keep in touch with my cousins, so I believe it's the better way to talk to them using our family langauge.