nin hao benny…. after that message you sent back i started thinking about what i need to improve in in chinese learning and one thing that might help me is if you just send me some pointers on like how to go into those different tones and just “secrets” that might help me..i live down the street from this lady from taiwan who knows mandarin so shes going to help me out but she kind of scares me when it comes to learning chinese… well xie xie for the info and help