Posts

Showing posts with the label learnMandarin

Is it really that difficult to learn better Chinese as a second language?

Image
Is Chinese really so hard to learn as a second language? Second language Second language. The Chinese language is really not that difficult to learn as you imagined or heard about, it’s just very different from your mother tongue, but difference does not necessarily mean difficulty, right? Many foreign friends of mine are complaining to me that Chinese is so hard to learn: the ridiculously difficult writing system, the confusing four tones, the extensive system of measure words, so a lot of things to memorize… It seems that I should thank God just for being born Chinese . Is Chinese really that hard to learn as a foreign language? Actually, I don’t think so. Chinese grammar is much simpler if compared to that of the European languages. English speakers sometimes complain that languages like Spanish have a complicated grammar (masculine and feminine genders, verb conjugations, etc), whereas the Chinese language has little or no bound morphology and there are no grammat...

Is it really that difficult to learn better Chinese as a second language?

Image
Is Chinese really so hard to learn as a second language? Second language Second language. The Chinese language is really not that difficult to learn as you imagined or heard about, it’s just very different from your mother tongue, but difference does not necessarily mean difficulty, right? Many foreign friends of mine are complaining to me that Chinese is so hard to learn: the ridiculously difficult writing system, the confusing four tones, the extensive system of measure words, so a lot of things to memorize… It seems that I should thank God just for being born Chinese . Is Chinese really that hard to learn as a foreign language? Actually, I don’t think so. Chinese grammar is much simpler if compared to that of the European languages. English speakers sometimes complain that languages like Spanish have a complicated grammar (masculine and feminine genders, verb conjugations, etc), whereas the Chinese language has little or no bound morphology and there are no grammat...