Hi, everyone, I am native Chinese speaker, have language partners here. I was always told that the most difficult to learn Chinese  is pronunciation. Because every single Chinese charater has differrent pronunciation. Yes, you are right. For improving your Chinese listening/speaking, I would like to share some experiences with my English learning.

1. being familiar with the language way you're learning is the most important, at least you should know how they speak, what kind of tone they use.

2. try to learn it like a baby, think about how baby learns to speak? they don't know any grammar, single word and pronunciation, they just listen and listen, follow and follow, repeat and repeat...then can open their mouth, right?

3. creat the languge environment, and listen, speak it everyday, follow the tongue and speak out loud at least 30mins each day. You will find the change if you keep going.

4. find simple proper leaning materials to fit yourself, keep joyful for a long way. You know what I mean. :)

For my partners' pratice of Chinese listening, I have already recorded something for them. Here I would like to share with you. You can find out on Youtube, just key in "Chinese listening Cissi" or "Cissi Chinese listening" to search related videos there. I will try my best to put it more gradually. Here is one of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGyNubZifYk

Any material of interets, feel free to let me know, I'd like to make it for you as possible as I can.

Thank you very much for your attention and hope your leaning goes well.