Learning Mandarin

A new school term started at the beginning of this month and I felt like needing to improve my Mandarin. So, I talked with our language coach and she agreed having me to learn Mandarin 2 hours a week. It is decided that I start with bopomofo which is a Taiwanese punounciation, different from Romanized pinyin, what I had learned long time ago while I was in college. This system is believed to be more accurate, but they look like symbols with no meanings to me now. Probably in a month or two, I'll have them memorized and start reading Religious Conversation in Mandarin.