1. solid:hard or firm,with a fixed shape,and not a liquid or gas.

Is the baby eating solid food yet?

2. basic

Forming the most important or most necessary part of something.

The basic idea is simple.

basics

The most important and necessary facts about something,from which other possibilities and idea may develop.

Here are some of the basics you will need know.

3. seminar

A class on a particular subject,usually given as a form of training.

Publisher and writers from 13 countries attended the seminar.

4. Mandarin

The official language of China,spoken by most educated Chinese people.

Mandarin Chinese

5. process

A series of actions that are done in order to achieve a particular result.

Repetition can help the learning process.

6. mean-meant-meant

To have or represent a particular meaning.

The red light means ‘stop’.

The author was at a seminar in Hongkong.A young woman told him she had learnt Mandarin Chinese for two years,but she only had the basics and thought there’s no way a person can learn Chinese faster than that.

I worked solid English for ten years.even than only had the basics.Speaking English is too difficult for me.What’s the best way to learn a language?Maybe KungFu English can tell me how to learn it.Let’s look forward to it.