Chinese is a very interesting and complicated language.  You cannot spell it.  It was evolved from drawing/pictures.  With the modern Chinese characters/symbols of nowadays, it is even more difficult to figure out how it was originally looked like. Therefore, if you are interested in learning it, you must memorize every stroke. But I am going to share with you some of the tips of how to make the learning process smoother, easier and more fun.
1. Learning - Speaking, recognizing and writing are the 3 main parts in the whole learning process.
2. Mandarin - Almost everybody is big on Chinese now.  With more and more westerners learning it, it does not only allow all the Chinese communicating with each other throughout the whole world, it also encourage more cultural exchange.
3. Dialects - It could be over 3 dialects within one province.  Some of them are widely used in other Southeast Asian countries.
4. Computer Softwares - Yes, there are Chinese versions.  There are also many methods to type Chinese into the computer.  I will introduce you some very popular ones.
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