first i think you should learn the basic 4 pronounciations of chinese, it's almost the hardest thing for every foreigner. you can ask a chinese to teach you that, slowly and clearly(of course who speak madarine). second you start from sth like good morning good afternoon hello, bye bye... zao shang hao xia wu hao nihao zaijian 早 上 好 ， 下 午 好 你好 再见 after you learned that,you can learn some daily used phrases example: how much is it? zhe ge duo shao qian 这 个 多 少 钱 when you do this it's best of you to have a madarine speaker with you.ask him/her to tell you each time you think what they said is useful.and remember the phrases correctly. you don't have to learn how to write the words, it's too diffecult . pay attention to your friends intonation when you learn things from them. it's different from english. one more thing is that the sequence is very important.unlike english inverted sentence is seldom used. we tell meaning from the order of the words used in the sentence.when the order is incorrect we can't understand sentences clearly and directly. i'm happy you are willing to learn chinese. persist in it my friend!! i'm here waiting to offer little helps if you need. hope you will learn chinese successfully!

I want ask you a question:"How i can speak Chinese?" and "How can i speak Chinese?" which is right? I'm a little confused.Thinks.

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Like other languages, you should first have a basic knowledge of this language. So i suggest you to listen to some radio and have a slight feeling of what Chinese sounds like. then u can start with basic hanyupinying. For most foreiners, the four different tones is a different to master. Don't hurry, practise enough before you proceed. Hope you can find a native speaker accompanying you, so that you can correct the errors immediately. then you can learn some characters. it maybe difficult for you to come up with your own sentences. i think you should read a lot. since each character has a basic meaning, it is not difficult to guess the sentence's meaning. Chinese is a beautiful language, but it requires much effort to master it!! Hope you have made up your mind and persist in the way towards better Chinese!

I think every language learner will has this question , so just relax yourself , keeping your enthusiasm. Meanwhile, I believe we can become good friends .