Onlie courses and help with sentences

[uhuru94]

I have been teaching myself Chinese for a month now. It hasn’t been easy and I do need to find myself a school and a teacher. Are there any websites for online learning you would recommend?

A friend is living and working in China and has sent me this message:

nihao ni hao ma

wo zhi xue le ji tian de zhongwen. xian zai wo shuo zhongwen ken ding bi ni hao.

xi wang hen kuai neng jian dao ni. hao hao xiu xi

qing shi zhe li jie wo shuo de hua .

zhu ni yi qie shun li

Can someone help me understand what it means or at least the GIST of it (I hope nothing offensive :-)? I went as far as ni hao

Thanks a bunch.

Mar

[self-taught-mba]

Well, There is our training center where you can learn Chinese in Beijing if you need a school.

Look around here, there are a ton of websites out there. I good book might be good for some basics btw.

What it says is this:

Hello. How are you?

I've only studied Chinese for a few days. Now my Chinese is certainly better than yours.

Hope I can see you soon. Take it easy.

Please try to understand what I am saying.

Wish all goes well/smoothly.

[uhuru94]

Thanks self-taught-mba. I'll sure take a look at your website.

[trevelyan]

You should write him back and tell him you can't understand what he's saying. Perhaps he could say it in Chinese?

You're welcome to check out what we are doing at Popup Chinese. Lots of resources, most of which are free.

[bchew]

This may be a little late, but if you want to tell him you couldn't understand but a friend helped you, you could say the following:

nihao, wo hen hao, ni ne?

wo mei kan dong ni shuo de hua, buguo you yi ge pengyou bangzhu wo, wo mingbai le.

wo ye xiwang hen kuai neng jian dao ni.

zhu ni yi qie shunli!

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Hello, I'm good. How about you?

I couldn't understand what you said, but a friend helped me so I understand.

I hope I can see you soon too.

Hope everything's going well!