Nice topic. If you asked any of the peeps in my life they would say that I can talk/chat for the nation. And @ shortandcute..lolxz my wife says she can never get a word in edgeways with my incessant talking. But its what makes me, me. So I'll keep chattering (just to make sure peeps are still listening lolxz).

@ Fleury. Learning languages is not that hard. You obviously have the will to learn Mandarin so I am sure you will master it. Using a language as much as possible will help assist learning. Or living in the country where the language is from proper accelerates learning of native languages.
If you are getting tired. It might be the pace and tempo of the language and not the language itself.

g/l with all the learning.