Studying Chinese Again

When I received an email last month with a 25% discount off the local community college's Intensive Mandarin Chinese evening course, I sprung for it.  I haven't reviewed my putonghua since 2004 and thought it might be a good refresher. The course teacher is male and has a different spin than the female teachers I have had in the past. This course also covers the character writing which is very useful.

Distracted by cello and humanities I haven't focused much on Chinese studies yet but it's starting to get exciting.  Just browsing through the internet last night and found tons of resources.  Especially on YouTube.  There's karoake with pinyin.  So much more to study than there was 5 years ago.