Tracy Said:

How is the best way to learn to read Chinese characters?

We Answered:

you can only read those characters which you know therefore the more you know -- the more you can read
sometims you can guess the word syllable but you will never guess the tone
therefore _the only_ way to read characters is to learn them
no shortcut, sorry :D

Virginia Said:

How to learn read and write English in short period of time?

We Answered:

Subtitled movies are always great for reading.

Frances Said:

Any good sites to learn how to read Japanese online?

We Answered:

Try this one? It's good... and free of course.

http://www.sayjack.com/

Katrina Said:

Would it be easy to teach myself how to read Greek? I can't speak the language?

We Answered:

Well, you will be able to read and write it, if you learn the alphabet. This is pretty fast and easy, you usually should have it in mind in two days - university courses expect their participants to learn the alphabet until the next day, so two days would be fine. The greek alphabet is not hard to learn or write, you already know some letters from mathematics and it is pretty fast - no comparison to the russian or arabic alphabet which is really difficult to remember.
If you want to learn the language you would need a teacher. I took a bit classical greek in school and it is not that difficult if you've learned ancient latin before, but greek has lots of grammar and as there are quite some things the english language does not know, it might be very hard to learn the language alone, if you want to be able to speak it one day - if you just want to know a bit, you could try by yourself.

Manuel Said:

Learning how to play Guitar?

We Answered:

http://www.chordie.com/chords.php

here is a chart for all of the chords. the 6th(thickest) string is on the left.


(start with the basics A Am B C D E Em F

once you get those down, you want to learn songs, chordie is a good place to find them too.

Penny Said:

For NON-NATIVE English speakers: How do you feel about learning English as a foreign language?

We Answered:

hey, always mother tongue is like the mother herself. You should be on the side of philipino. Imagine that your mother is not very good looking. (now there, good looking itself is relative!!), if people in public criticise the looks of your mother, how would you take it. Just that. If people criticize philipino either in private or public, just do what you would have done to your mother's criticizers. But ofcourse that fight back, you should do in English. That is the beauty of it.