GCSE chinese anyone?????

I would like to study this, but how many of the characters do you have to learn? And do you learn Simplified or Traditional Chinese? Mandarin or Cantonese?

Try getting as much exposure as you can to Chinese texts, I tried surfing music sites online for my AS . Read some books or just watch Chinese VCD series with subtitles! I'm currently watching MARS. The GCSE is quite easy, to the extent it's boring. Also, revise how to write both formal and informal letters and relevant vocab. Hope that helps, good luck!

Try reading the news online in Chinese. That's what I did for Chinese AS, but I have yet to see my result (forgot to call in and I haven't gone to collect the mail yet ^^).

lol omg gcse chinese was so easy it made me laugh (although i am a british born chinese!).

it was like ........omg it was just SO funny!

i managed to lose 1 mark? and that was on writing!

@Ace (sorry, but you're name's too long :P) - It's even more essential then that you read more Chinese stuff to expand your vocab range. It's a big step between Chinese GCSE and Chinese AS, you need to know stuff about the modern day society and you have to be able to translate Chinese into English, which is usually thought of as easier than English into Chinese, and you have to write an essay, you probably know all this already.
You can improve your vocab is by reading, since they don't have a vocab list for AS Chinese, unfortunately. The easiest is probably to have a nice stack of lined paper and a dictionary at hand while reading news online. It's boring, but you'll be surprised at what you learn. If you take Chinese lessons, it might be a good idea to ask your teacher to recommend books and dictionaries.
The easier, and possibly faster way of improving vocab is having conversations with other people in Chinese at least once a day. I did that and it helped lots, but then again, I have lots of contact with Chinese speaking people.
Good luck with it ^^ just try your best. I hope I've helped ><.

Edit: I forgot, there is one other way of improving vocab, but it involves getting an English-Chinese Dictionary, which I have had trouble finding in England, but it might be because of where I am... Anyway, you can try writing a diary in chinese. That would really help. But it can be very time-consuming... And during the day, whenever you're saying or thinking or writing something in English, just let yourself wonder at how you would say/write it in Chinese.

How long would it take me to teach myself the GCSE Chinese? I am apt at learning languages.

In Year 7, I started German.
In Year 8, French.
Then in Year 10 I also picked up Spanish but had to continue French afterschool.

And i got A*s in all three and top five marks in the country for Spanish which I'd only been learning for 2 years.

Do you reckon I could learn the GCSE Chinese in 2 years? If I did 5/6 hours a week?

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