learn chinese

我学中文已经一年半了。但我还不太清为什么我学中文。是为了工作？不是。好象是为了跟中国人交流吧，是听他们夸我说噢你中文很棒也会算是另一个原因。走了不少路以后才需要问为什么是有点奇怪的，我知道。但我想问题应该不是我不知道学中文的目的，而就是不知道自己生活的方向。很可能，学中文是不知该往哪走的我进入的一条路。好长一条路。我在这条路上一边走一边问《为什么》，而这个为什么已不是关于学中文了。

Ni hao!
I strongly recommend http://chinesepod.com Unlike other chinese online resources there are also a lot of lessons for advanced users. You can listen and check the text in the same time.

Hi,
Most foreigner think that learning Chinese is difficult as it has not an alphabet but actually it is not as difficult as they think.
There are some clues to learn “hanzi”
Fist of all you should change your perception if it is like “learning Zi is a hard stuff” or something like that. In most cases the problem is related with the negative perception. And you know when it comes to learn Chinese Characters (Hanzi) negative perceptions have not real basics.
Secondly, at the beginning you should give attention to the way of writing like from top to the bottom or from left to the rigt rules. Some might think that it just makes more complicate the situation, but it is not. If you get used to these rules of writing later you can write any Zi without help, and as you write it in a carefull way it will be suprisingly more nicer than native chinese hand writing.
The third and most important issue is to have some basic knowledge about philosopy of chinese characters, have a look at some books like “500 hundres chinese characters with its history” or “what is inside chinese characters” might help you. That will give you more comprehensive understanding of Hanzi. For example sometimes you may understand the meaning of some Zi that you still dont know or fell what it is like saying oo it should be something related to water or it should be an insect.
When you give attention to the background of Zi you will start to see the characters in basic parts so then it will become easy to memorise and to use them. It is some kind of lego game. Chinese characters mainly have two parts when one part gives the meaning of the character the other part makes it’s sound. So in many cases you can pronounce a Zi that you still dont know.
Finally seeing your Zi like seeing your soul, my native lang also use a latin alhabet but my chinese writing is more beautifull than my native hand writing, when i feel depressed or get in dark feelings just take a chair and write chinese characters. it makes me relaxed.
hope you find something usefull here..
加油！

你好同学，
在我的生活中学中文是一种享受不过同时有点麻烦，不管我怎么努力还不会说出来标准的发音而且记住汉字也有时很不容易。
但是我的目的很高我希望和中国人的水平一样那么好学会，我希望会看书会写文章，至少能看小说能写博客
加油于南实。你天天学习的话我相信你会取得。
好的我从现在开始。复始。。

你好同学们！现在我有点儿忙，以后我打算再写比较多。再见 ：）