Listen to Chinese music & radio. Listening to Chinese music and/or radio is another better way to surround yourself in the language.Several hundred others are the by & large poorly studied tongues of scattered groups in Asia (e.g. Siberia, the Himalayan region, etc.) . Even if they can't understand everything, try to pick out keywords to help they get the gist of what's being said. Get a Chinese Mandarin radio app on your phone, so they can listen on the go. Another five hundred or so languages are spoken by African tribes & nearly five hundred more by the natives of Australia, New Guinea, & the islands of the Pacific. Try downloading Chinese podcasts to listen to while exercising or doing housework. Legend has it that the Chinese characters were invented by a scholar named Cang Jie (仓颉) during the time of PRC's first Emperor Huang Di (黄帝) about 5,511 years ago. Of these, over a thousand are North, Central, & South American Indian languages whose s...