Learning Mandarin

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I have seen threads of people saying the want to learn Japanese or something of a similar sort.
This thread is proberbly going to annoy some people but meh.

There is a very good chance that I may be moving to China in the next year or two for a job that has recently become vancant in my company. Since I will be living and working with locals who may only speak a bit of broken english. I thought it would be a good idea to try and get a leg up (so to speak) and start learning som basic Mandarin.

Not only will it boost my chance at the job but it will also be extremely useful for the working environment I will be entering.

So question is :p whats the best place to start out ?

I have had a look around on the internet there is so many "guides" or buy this CD that will make you learn Mandarin in 10days type thing. But I can't find any (what seem like) real people saying this method really works.

I have had a look at the nearest college to me and they don't seem to offer part time course's for Mandarin which is a bit of a dissapointment.

I thought I might as well risk it all and see what the OCUK community thinks.

Cheers
 
Is the rosetta stone worth splashing out on though ?

I was looking at that but it just seems well very expensive. If the content is good then fair play I might have a look into it.

Has anyone had any experience with the Rosetta Stone packages ? even in any of the other languages.

fifiov thanks for the info :) I must say I forgot about uni I wonder if the Open University has a part time course for Mandarin.
 
I might need to do some more research on Rosetta Stone then. As you said to be honest it would be quite ideal to learn at home or even at the office from time to time and that would suit.

I just feel that having somebody like a teacher is always nice to have in case you do really get stuck or confused. I guess though there is always the internet for questions though.
 
Thanks for all the advice people :)

Sadly I didnt get a chance to get back on the internet last night :( But I will deffo be checking out the suggestions in the thread and see what works :)
 
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