itunes music store rocks! I found an audiobook called “In-Flight Mandarin Chinese – Learn before you land” For less than 10 bucks you learn enough basics to get by. You learn by listening to the words and phrases and repeating. (hmmm… just like the language labs at school). Anyway, listening to how it’s said is very important because when you change the tone of how you say the word apparently the meaning also changes. Perfect! My plan is to learn and perfect a phrase a week.