Is it easier to convey emotions, abstract ideas, complicated things with the chinese language?

Question

I know the chinese language is 10 times more complicated & expansive than english so does that mean you can explain things clearer and more descriptively?

Option question: If not, then why doesn't the language get abandoned and replaced with english ASAP?

If it is true, then the potential for making great poems must be amazing.

Answer 1

Chinese language is a lot more flexible than English.  and it excels in convey emotions and abstract ideas than english.  

Answer 2

chinese language is very profound because it has been used and developed for more than 5000 years.

in the antient time, paper is very expensive in china, so people curve words in bamboo slips.

maybe for this reason, people formed a habit of using less words to convey more meaning and emotion.

most of the poems herited from the antient are made up of less than 40 words.

Answer 3

The people above was right.

Chinese is a very complicated language. It's easy to get started but it's really hard to deepen.

Tell you a fact, nearly 1/3 of my classmates( who are all native Chinese speakers) at high school failed some Chinese exams.

Edit: to your second question, making poem is forte of Chinese. There are specially refined words for poems or essays which are different from oral speaking and these words are regarded  "noble", "beautiful" and "literary", compared to oral words "plain" and "regular".

Plus, as English, Chinese is also a developing language. It is changing and evolving. Every day, there are new words or expressions invented.

But the large difference from English or any other western language is that, due to the fact that Chinese words are comprised of characters and each character represents a meaning(practical or abstract), it is so flexible and easy to create any new words(no matter how complicated or abstract) with these characters but still incredibly easy to be understood by people at first sight. There is nothing Chinese can't express and there is no technical or specialized vocabulary Chinese people can't understand.

So with these traits, the Chinese language keeps being rich and vigorous. and it is the only language in the world that was invented more than 3000 years ago but is still alive today.

For all of these, you can easily understand why most east Asian languages adopt Chinese, including Japanese(directly), Korean( more than half of its vocalbulary stemmed from Chinese but written in its own way), Vietnamese(romanlized Chinese words)...

Answer 4

Yes, the Chinese language is extremely rich in Adjectives. There are even ancient cultural references used in Adjectives in the Present day China due to China's long and extensive history. I could even further my explaination But i don't think it's nesscary and I simply do not have enough time.

Any learner of Chinese would definately benefit an exordinary amount, spirtually, and also gains a much more insightful view toward our modern world from this cryptic language.  

Answer 5

Colloquially, the Chinese language has no problem of conveying emotions, abstract ideas, or complicated things. My mom often uses a lot of Chinese idioms, adverbs, and adjectives that I sometimes don't understand. I tell her so and she usually goes on a very long tangent explaining the meanings.

Chinese is a very connotative language. If you say one simple little syllable, it could have many different concepts... I don't mean definitions, but rather, the ideas. My Chinese teacher said that when he was in high school, the teachers tested him and his classmates on ancient Chinese poems that were incredibly difficult because one character could have so many different meanings.

You could say that it depends on the context, but when there are only say, two characters to perhaps describe a feeling or concept that goes very deep, you might as well use a whole paragraph of English to analyze and define the two characters.

Also, what many people may not know, is that written Chinese is completely different from spoken Chinese. For example, if you read a section of a newspaper or any article for that matter out loud, it would not only sound nothing like conversational Chinese, but it would be a little hard for the listener to understand because they can't actually see the characters. Like the two English words: stationary and stationery; they have the same pronunciation, but completely different meanings.

Hope this was helpful!