At 22:59 05.02.2005 +0000, you wrote:

>Hello all who have contributed to this discussion,
>
>Recently i lamented with Ven Analayo about the difficulty of
>learning Chinese. He responded that now, with the digital tools
>available, it's 'kinderagten'.
>
>Ok, we must put this in perspective, not all of us have Analayo's
>skill with languages. But point taken. The grammar is quite simple,
>and the basics can easily be grasped with a few weeks with a
>introduction to Chinese.

This really looks encouraging. But I think I would need some graded lessons
to get started.

Yours,

Kåre A. Lie
http://www.lienet.no/