Newspaper reading class

It's saturday in Taiwan. The highlight of the day is newspaper reading class. No I can't read a newspaper yet-that's why I take the class. I have about an hour commute to the nearest language center offering chinese classes. Daily exposure isn't enough to learn to read and speak Chinese at a high level so I must make the commute to class. It costs about twelve U.S. dollars per classroom hour. A textbook with authentic newspaper articles accompanied by a vocabulary list and discussion questions is used. Learning a language is lots of fun. Since my basic Chinese is pretty fluent at this point i've already started thinking about what language to study next!