Learn the language your practice came from for free/online

[Pranaman]

I just found out about:

http://www.livemocha.com/

 

They got Hindi, Chinese, Russian, and a bunch other languages.

 

You can learn most languages, but they also have free tutors and thousands of native speakers of each language that are more than willing to help you. I've been there for a two days and I already am acquainted with a girl natively from China majoring in English who said she will individually teach me her native language. You can record yourself and people will help you with your accent and correct pronunciation and understanding. I'm stoked, after a few years i'll be able to read all of the Gong Fu and Qigong work that is only in mandarin chinese. Just thought somebody might find this to be a good resource.

[Xienkula1]

It is a nice resource!

 

I think you'd better make a lot of Chinese speaker friends to practice with though, and supermemo might help increase the learning curve. http://www.supermemo.com

Edited June 10, 2008 by Xienkula1

[jaloo]

Have a little fun while learning Mandarin, http://enterzon.com/

[Pranaman]

awesome!