How hard is Chinese
After learning Polish, and now starting to learn Chinese, I find Chinese ridiculously simple. They do have tones, but since this has a musically quality and its not hard to learn. Chinese grammar, is almost non existent. No cases, verb conjugation, no article. Nothing. What about the writing. Well since humans have spoken languages for, lets say, 40,000 years and 99 % of humans did not read or write until lets say 100 years ago, I think speaking and understanding a language is the most important. Then you can learn to read, unless you want to hand someone a note or something.
So in my opinion Chinese is not a hard language to learn.
4 responses to How hard is Chinese
Bravo! Chinese is not difficult and yet many feel worried not being able to pronounce it correctly, whereas pronunciation in Chinese is but 5 different tones. It is only when a string of phrases are put together, it does become tongue twisting challenge.
This comment is very typical of someone who has not really gotten their toes wet with the Chinese language. Chinese is deceptively difficult. By this I mean at the beginning, Chinese seems very simple — just as the author claimed, Chinese has no cases, verb conjugation, etc., but the language gets heart breakingly difficult after a while.
I am learning Chinese and my friend teaches Chinese and has written books on Chinese, he says its easy. I think its very easy.
I just want to tell you that I know so many people whose native language isn’t English but learn English well, no matter in speaking, listening, reading or writing. But, I never saw a foreigner could fully grasp the Chinese tone and conversation, and for writing or reading Chinese, oh boy, it’s mostly impossible.
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