Hello there. My name is Rob. I'm trying to learn mandarin chinese (spoken and written) so will gladly connect with any native speakers or other mandarin learners. I'm still a beginner but have a basic understanding of some grammar and a fairly limited vocabulary but I have studied a few sentence patterns. As a native English speaker I'll be more than happy to help people trying to learn. I've traveled to both mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong as part of my travels and am fascinated by all things oriental (unfortunately my time there was incredibly limited).