become fluent in chinese

I’ve been trying to speak chinese but each time i try, my grammer is all wrong… I might be too used to english. I’ve been using chinses texts to improve my grammer but there’s little progress.
Each time i speak, i hav to ponder for a while, resulting in poor fluency. Any tips, anyone?

Im in chinese 102….
and this is crazy difficult.

I have a tutor! Sort of. I’m doing Chinese/English language exchange with a second-year Chemistry grad student to help me prepare for my Chinese translation exam next semester.

Speaking is conversational at the moment (in Mandarin). Would like to acquire more reading comprehension and vocabulary, and have some writing ability beyond reliance on a computer program. I’d like to pass for a native speaker (flawless accent!) at some point, and learn Cantonese.

Improvement is a hard thing to measure. Certainly I have learned many new words and can carry on conversations, but I am a long way from being fluent. :-( A long, long way. sigh

This is one of those things that will ideally happen someday but likely never happen at all. What a terrible attitude. It’s just that right now it’s on the backburner, and I couldn’t even progress as fast as I liked when it was on the front burner.

I learned a bunch of them and can now look things up in my handy dictionary. A start, eh?

I signed up for Chinese for next semester. I signed up last fall for Chinese, but they put me in this accelerated “heritage” course that was too fast and intimidating so I dropped out.

This regular Chinese class should be easier, though slower. I hope I will commit to it. I guess we’ll see in a couple months when it begins.