Chinese is very hard to learn?

Question

Chinese is very hard to learn?

Answer 1

yea foo......... if i wuz u i wuld stop learning chinesse itz da hardest language to learn in da world

Answer 2

the grammar and all that in chinese is not hard, the hardest part is the pronounciation and the tonation in chinese language.

my friend who took chinese in uni for an elective can remember the characters fine but once its speaking test, even "ni hao" was marked wrongly.

but if you have a tonation language in your background, well, chienese is not that hard. it depends on each person i guess ..

it depends on your mother tongue. i know a lot of english-speakers are taking chinese courses and they are good at it. so i guess, you have to try it yourself and see how you go.

good luck though, if you are trying to learn!~

Answer 3

Mandarin is hard as h**l, but Cantonese is relatively easy but less usefull. Learn Mandarin first.

Answer 4

it's very easy actually

many people believe it's hard but... it's only a myth

the more you learn it the easier it is

just try

:D

Answer 5

Yes.

Chinese letters may look like Korean letters or Japanese letters.

And they are very hard to learn but still you can learn very little.

Answer 6

All I can say is as long as you are willing to sweat your way out to learn something, there's nothing in this world that is too hard to master.

Answer 7

Yes once I took intrest in this language.

but there is no a for apple or d for doll

there is tree for some thing and symbols looks dificult to write

huh

but tutor realy needed we can learn it own by own

Answer 8

This is the subject of heated discussions among Mandarin students. The spoken language is not as hard as people would think. The grammar is about as complex as in English, but the vocabulary takes more effort to learn, since it is not related at all to the English vocabulary.

The most dramatic aspect of Mandarin Chinese is the tones. You have four tones in Mandarin and the sense of a word will depend on the tone. The phonetic system of Chinese is not difficult to master. Some of the consonants are similar to English. Most are not but easily manageable. Do not try to find an English equivalent for each sound, they do not exist. You should listen to the speaker, place your tongue correctly and try your best. And don't be afraid in twisting your tongue in the back of your throat to produce certain sounds.

For Western language speakers, there is practically no recognizable vocabulary in Chinese. You have to learn everything from scratch. However, as the words are usually very short (one or two syllable) for the majority, the memorization is not that hard. The plurisyllabic words are made from combinations of the monosyllabic words. As your basic vocabulary increases, you can begin to guess what the combinations will mean.

When you learn a new word, you also need to memorize the tone. From that it could be said that learning to speak Chinese is probably easier for people who have an oral memory than a written one. As we will see with the characters, learning to read Chinese is probable just the opposite.

When the tone changes on one syllable, it normally changes completely its meaning. There are however some notable exceptions. For instance, the word mai with a falling rising tone means to buy as mai with a falling tone means to sell.

Three to four years at least to learn to read, but you can speak in one year.

Answer 9

Friend, English is just a language with 26 scripts. Do u know how many r there in Chinese Language? One cannot accurately refer to it till u r well versed in Chinese. To my knowledge there are more than 1000 scripts, so it seems difficult when u learn it first. My suggestion would be, search for the common chinese language that is most written and start learning it. Dont get mixed with all the different chinese scripts.

Love the language, you'll learn it faster. Have fun.