Dear Peter, How is everything going? I am fairly pleased thay you are interested in Chinese. Now ,let me tell you something important about how to learn it. In the first place, you are demanded that you should keep in high spirit and mood when you set out to do it. Besides, you must have a formal communication with the other people, who is very friendly to you in China. What is more,you should know how to share your difficulty and good ideas sincerely with local people. If you can accomplish it smoothly, it is believed that you will learn Chinese very well in ashort time. I am looking faward to your reply. Faithfully,yours Li hua.