在口语中，有语气的区别，比如： 什么都行 (all good) is more suitable, rather than 什么也行。I tried a few other examples, such as 什么都不管了/什么也不管了， 什么都不问/什么也不问，and in these examples, there is hardly any difference between the two.

@Leuken46，

If I were to give you one piece of advice it would be to take the plunge into learning Chinese Characters. I know many people feel like speaking is enough, but with a wealth of written Chinese out there that can be your teacher once you reach higher levels, it just doesn't make sense not to go the extra mile. You'll find out that when you can use Characters to communicate with native speakers, or read a book or article in Chinese, that your abilities will advance quite rapidly.

Remember, no Chinese wants to use Pinyin to chat with you.

Besides that, believe it or not, reading can be a great help to your speaking and listening comprehension, even thinking in Chinese.

I truly hope you'll take the plunge into a bigger world!

我好希望你愿意好好学习中文字。

小虎

@leuken46,

Thanks!很高兴你喜欢。

One way you may find useful to remember new vocab or phrases is to make sentences with them. It's easy to forget the vocab you learn from a textbook, but if you can put them into sentences, you will be able to use them in the future.

--Echo

echo@popupchinese.com

@DJGrubbs,

First just concentrate on learning the 214 偏旁部首, radicals that make up every character.

http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/radicals.php

The next step is to start reading as much Chinese as you can with Pinyin next to it. The thing is, don't let Pinyin become a crutch, it's only there to be a guide in the initial stages.

There're over 1000 lessons on Popup Chinese and you can read everything in the lessons with a pinyin pronunciation guide next to it. Gradually as you begin to recognize characters, turn off the pinyin option and force yourself to read the characters without it. This will be very difficult in the beginning, but don't worry, it gets easier with time.

You can also use Pinyin input to get simple conversations going here in the forums, the greatest validation of your newfound skills will be when someone answers you back in Chinese. That's when you know you've really got a handle on it.

Don't forget that everything that's easy was once difficult. 万事开头难！

小虎

＠Djgrubbs,

Yeah, I'd most definately do something where you get good instruction and practice all around. Echo can help you formulate good teaching plan and with structured guidance I'm sure you'll improve much more rapidly. Just make sure to do a little reading and writing practice everyday.

:)

小虎