understanding mandarin would be easy for you because you already know cantonese. some words sound similar to the word in cantonese, so you'd be able to pick it up fairly quickly. also, the pinyin is very easy to learn too. i've been learning mandarin since i was young...although i didn't pay attention in class so i didn't get very far XD. so now i can only read most words using pinyin

that's kinda true that mandarin is very similar to cantonese...okay fine maybe not very...but they are still similar in their own ways....i know more cantonese than mandarin though....but i like mandarin more than cantonese!!! lol

~AJa AJa FiGhTiNg~

well a transition doesnt sound too hard..
but i'm just starting from scratch and its veryy hard =]
good luck with that!

lucky! i velly wanna learn chinese! i think its such a cool language. i mean hk will take over the world someday lols so yeah

agreed with everyone's post. im cantonese so with me trying to speak chinese, i will just twist up the sounds for the word and thats my chinese. LOL

I dunno i'm kinda learning manderine myself and i find it pretty easy...i watch manderine drama and my friends teach me...so i now i know how to communicate alittle...that took me around 2 month...so it's really easy...you just have to be really familar with cantonese like me...so u can read the sub title while you listen to manderine and soon you'll learn some words =D

bleh, just watch taiwanese dramas... it's real easy... lol
that's how i learned it, besides the fact that my piano teacher always talked to me in mandarin! ><

Haha.. Chinese is quite ez for me coz i speaks mandarin since i m a boy.. Cantonese is ok for me too as becoz i stay in city tat speaks cantonese more than chinese.. But my pronounciation for cantonese is a bit weird coz most of the time i translate it from mandarin..

i want to learn mandarin so that i can watch the taiwan drama without looking the substitle...hehe.Funny eh?

listen to Mandarin songs also can help !