Mandarin

Does anyone have any experience learning Mandarin? Any tips?

I tried for a while before deciding I could care less about it right now
But the Michel Thomas course is good, and can be found on torrents. Spoken Mandarin is actually quite easy (the tones aren't hard either), it's the written part that's hard. I could give you the links to some books for learning the Hanzi that I've heard good reviews about (and tried one, it's pretty good).