Starting Mandarin

I've decided I'll try Mandarin for 6 weeks.

Obviously I won't get very far, but it will at least let me see if I like the language and want to continue. It's also a lot easier to commit to 6 weeks instead of who knows how long it will take to gain any sort of conversational ability in the language.

I'm using Michel Thomas, the Foundation and Advanced courses, and Assimil.

I'll officially start my 6 weeks this Monday, but I'll dabble in it this weekend.

Now I just need to find out how to read Mandarin.