What's your way on learning a foreign language?  

you must first find a way to learn the basics. The ABC's and whatnot. After that, you gotta listen to the music. Translate them and get to know the phrases. Once you've got that down, read a lot, and at the same time, train the speach. You can learn anything in about a year or so, I beleive.

Some people find languages easy, and for some they are hard to learn. I've done pretty well with Spanish and German as far as I went, but oh, Chinese is hard for me! I'd love to be as good at your language as you are at mine.

Why do I want to learn Chinese? I have a great interest in Qi Gong and Traditional Chinese Medicine. We westerners need to know more about these things. They are so important to our wellbeing, and so wonderfully valuable.

Is your government still cracking down on the Qi Gong masters and practitioners? Or should I even ask you that? I now of one master who "charges" innocent sounding music with his qi field so his students can listen to the music and benefit without being caught. Sad that he has to do this.

Xie xie. :-)

Learn basics and slowly build on.

PRACTICE IS KEY!!!

I like languages very much. I have learned English, German and French at school and Italian in Italy, and last year I started learning Russian. I don't study Russian at a school, I have thought about taking a language course, but it is pretty expensive, and I can't afford it the moment, so I have decided to study on my own instead. At first I borrowed some books at the library, but they weren't that useful, and now I use the internet instead of books. I have found two great sites that I use a lot. One of them is a picture dictionary where and I can look at the pictures and listen to the pronounciation of the words.

Your way of doing it is great. It is really good to start with the culture. For me, another way of learning the language easily is through songs. I just observed that when you hear a song in foreign language, even if you do not know the meaning, you can easily memorize it. So, if you know a song, you can start translating it and everything will make sense.:)

Hi! I like very much to learn foreign languages.I can speak the German languages.Of English I can write,but I can not speak.I can smol too Turkish.I think,that the best learn a language when you're in the country itself.You learn the language this country,but you learn too the culture.This is too very important!This is my way on learning a foreing languages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I find learning a new language to be challenging, but I also find that memorizatin is key. If you have stuff like conjugations of tenses of the words memorized, you will have an easier time of getting to know the language. I am English, but also took four years of Spanish. I memerized a lot of words and thier many tenses to help me with the language. If you really want to master a language, you have to memorize the ket components of it first. Then you build more confidence in not only writing it, but fluently speaking it. I know when I get appraoched by the Spanish culture, I am proud I can speak ther language, too.

Learning a language can be a time-consuming task. Worse still when one is not born a good learner. The only way to learn is to do it slowly. Nothing much can be learned with speed learning. I try to learn by having the knowledge source within my hands reach whether from books, dictionary or webpages. I read a lot day or night. I neglect the useless information. I repeat the whole process everyday until I finish learning a part of the foreign language. Its not necessarily that I master the language, my goal is to just be fluent enough to be able to converse what I need to say.

As for me, I'm not one who can study a foreign language only based on books or CDs. I can only learn if I go for classes especially classes taught by native speakers. I feel this may be the best way of learning a foreign language. The best is to practice, practice and practice.

mastering a second language for us Filipinos is not that hard because our very own country consists of so many local dialects and some groups of indigents dont even know how to speak Tagalog which is our national language. i belong to a certain group of tribe in southern Philippines, and we treat our local dialect as our primary language and, Tagalog which is our national language as secondary language. it is normal to us to have to adapt to many languages in a short time period in order for us to understand other Filipino citizens cuz we have different dialects for different tribal groups. people here learn English without even being taught because of televisions and reading materials. even kids who don't attend school understands English and can speak little but not fluently but when they grow up they eventually master it.