I keep trying to learn too! I speak 4 languages but Mandarin is hard for me. Hope one day we can communicate in Mandarin!
Mandarin is indeed hard..I understand that its sharp difference from Latin phylum puts a very big barrier for man like you.
But just keep on.
I am going to tackle with my graduation thesis, for time is very tight now,and there still need some revisions on codes in my project.
Chat in the future.
And bless to those in sufferings.