Christmas present

Learn how to say: "I loved you the first time I saw you" really well. Then learn how to count to a hundred.

todays lesson fits perfectly to yesterdays lesson 10 more sentences :)

does that mean you have 100 set phrases to memorize or you can select your own? If the latter I'd suggest to play 20 Newbie lesson non-stop, that should cover your 100 sentences, not that hard (forget about 蟹黄 and 汉字 for now. Alternatively, download one of the public domain recordings of Tang poetry (唐诗) or the Three-character Classic (三字经) and just repeat. That's only 30 sentences / day.

"who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?" "It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is over-rul'd by fate."

Luckily I can collect my own sentences :)

so then, pick up 10 Newbie lessons on topics of interest to you, if you combine the dialogue with the Fix, each lesson should give you about 10 sentences, one lesson a day.

Yeah, you may want to stay away from Shakespeare for now "-) But Goulniky has a great plan.

Simply memorize: 一百句汉语 Yībǎi jù Hànyǔ

hey xiaodai, :-) I wanna keep my girlfriend. But I will definitely become a fix addict over the next 10 days. Thank you all for your comments so far

Why do we all post one sentence each? One of my recently learnt favourites: 我一点也不知道 wǒ yī diǎn yě bù zhī dao I haven't a clue

Of course that would be a lie. It takes at least 2 hours for love to get it's claws into your heart. ;)

Actually you should get the complete book and memorize it. It is really incredibly hilarious.

Bazza, matthiask wants 'freely spoken' by him by which he means fluency I guess, so he needs a recording he can play over and over, text only won't work. How about song lyrics though?

Learning sentences from songs will give you the wrong tones, so what you say will make no sense at all, or worse.

who says he shouldn't sing the song too?

hey bazza, I like your sentence. It's in my list.

Here is one that may get a laugh: 我需要你的衣服，靴子还有摩托车。 wǒ xū yào nǐ de yī fu, xuē zi hái yǒu mó tuō chē. I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle. ;)

I do have an audio clip of that sentence as well. http://www.bazzanet.com/terminator.mp3

How about today's lesson with flowers?

You should definately learn the following title of a book we bought for my kids in Beijing: 不是我干的 bú shì wǒ gànde I didn't do it