Roger that. Yea Mandarin is notoriously hard to learn. Instead of 26 alphabets you need to memorize about 1000 characters to read a newspaper, and that's just the written language. Then you've got the spoken language. My mother tongue is Cantonese and even I find it somewhat difficult. For me learning Mandarin is like you Americans learning French I guess, not exactly easy.
Thanks for the member mark but what is it and what good does it do?