actually I study english and Japanese languages in my university , so I look to chinese and I saw it very easy than Japanese coz the kanji (chinese characters) has many spelling (Kun, ON ) and I notice that chinese has same characters in meaning but different spelling.... chinese has only one spelling in each character.......
so I have 700 lessons in my computer for chinese ( PDF and audio) so it just has to study them to be good in chinese ,i'd studyed some of them .......
about Syria ,it's southern of Turkey ..... you have to know it ..... right @_@