No, I don't study Chinese so far.
I try to persuade myself that getting tones are kinda similar to cycling when your bicycle is on fire, you're on fire, everything's on fire and you are in Hell. Not exactly. My idea is more trivial. It's like learning to cycle: bumping against wheels, the frame, treadles while trying not to smash your bike to pieces. This very moment a bicycle looks exactly like some tool of the Inquisition. Finally, on one bright day of all this circus on the pavement, you start just riding. Easy and effortlessly. And since that moment you are unable to explain with words how that happened. At least, that is my experience in learning to ride. Chinese, you are the next. If it ever happens.
Анлийский без подтекста, ни для чего. Меня просто стало забавлять, а как бы я написала это на английском.