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Hi Jane, know EXACTLY how you feel......ay our tender age there is onlys much the brain can absorb until it oozes out...... I've thought about trying to learn 1 word per day rather than getting overwhelmed with this interesting language. Given that process I hopefully will know about 300 words before I go....WOW who knows I might even be able to string a few together into a sentence!!!!!!! 

Hey! Your post made me laugh - we are so famous for the loud shouting to try to make people magically understand a different language XD

I have started Beginners Mandarin in a class and I am still finding it difficult, It's almost like learning 2 languages - Pinyin + Traditional Characters -

Hopefully I'll be a little better off by the time I get to Heathrow! so I can help you out XD

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If you want to learn with bilingual input, you could try; http://ics.qq.com/play.php?IVid=ZIfIur8xBLn

All the best with your studies and other work.

Hi Lee,

Sadly, it is beginners Mandarin!  I've got a lot going on at the moment - doing the TEFL, working on my Coaching Diploma and supporting my own Management Students.  So I think my head is just a bit too full at the moment.  So, I've decided to put it down for a while and make some headway with the other stuff for a while.  I've got until August anyway!

Hmmm, maybe I should spend more time in my local Chinese Takeaway and get them to talk to me.  Or I could put post-it notes with the pinyin words all over the items in my house . . . or just listen to it in my sleep.

Perhaps the language isn't graded to your level, or the context is inappropriate. What approach/method does the app claim to use?

Are you learning Mandarin or Cantonese?

Good luck!

Lee.