friendly hi to everyone

hi, I think learning with web will be fine, but practice must be more important, you can find a native teacher to instruct your learning.

recommend you a website.www.chineseontheair.com  it offers on-one-one lesson,the price is unbelievble low, the quality is good.

I was in China for a semester last year and found it very difficult to learn because of the "tones" or pronunciation.  I just could not get it right.  How is it possible to learn Chinese just from a website?