Hello, My name is Tore and im form norway, i want to learn to speak chinese cause me and a friend want to move to china and live there for a half year.

So if some one from china would add me to skype so i could talk to you and try learn some thing from you it would been nice! and i can try to learn you some norwegian if you want:P

Btw me and my friend was thinking about moving to the hong kong area not in the city but some where outside.

And can some one tell me what it cost to live in china? like what it cost for a small apartment for 2 people and food transport etc, we will also take a cinese course when we are in china, but i guess this isn't to expensive, and do some one know if there is many courses like this to sign up to?

Tanks for all answers=)

My skype addres is: kaare.mcclaken

and my username is [Медиатор] Карре мццлакен) Иккйе ринг (Its russian:P from when i learned russian:P)

Cya

well i live in the US now, but from wut i know, its pretty expensive to get an apartment in Hong Kong ;o

hong kong 的房租在中国是NO.1，比你的车库小的出租房价要10000--12500人民币/月，约为1830美元，如果你是作为学生到这里，估计会比较头疼，除非你非常富有。

Fung, he probably doesn't understand Chinese if he's asking for help in English on a Chinese forum.

That said, Fung is probably right; the rent in Hong Kong is astronomical (I am somewhat shocked that it is almost $2k/month, though) so you should be prepared to spend quite a bit of money to live there. You may want to look into very low-end housing options like the Chungking Mansions if you aren't rich.

In terms of study, you need to take classes on pronunciation before trying to learn from someone over Skype (I'm also a foreigner learning Chinese). Tones matter a lot, so you can't just wing it. It's even worse if you want to live in Hong Kong, since they speak Cantonese there, which has 8 tones. Best of luck.

I don't see how that is that Astronomical, maybe it's just where I'm from as well. I live in San Diego for school and rent is about 1600/month. Even back home in Huntington Beach (Orange County, California), Rent on a small apartment is in the same range as well.

I guess I'm just used to living in tiny rooms with low rent Personally, I think the housing prices in California are all astronomical, but it's just a matter of perspective.

故能成器长。

我忘了美国人民的收入是中国人民的十倍，LOL，租我家吧，每个月40美元，不过您可能要乘坐飞机上下学。

I thought Cantonese has 9 tones...

darkfire 是 中国人？