Is Chinese(汉语) really that difficult?...What are you guys' opinions? Firstly, I am a Chinese so I have a perfect environment for me to use my mother tongue everyday Second...I wanna make this right, I don't really think there's a language called"Chinese"...why?...I think Chinese is more like Lingua latina...which also has evolved into many sub-languages---French, Spanish, Italian and so many other Romance languages... Chinese---Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, Gan, Min, Hakka, Pinghua(平话)...etc. So many foreigners are learning the so called"Standard Chinese"---Putonghua... But I don't think Putonghua is that difficult, it has the similar sentence structure as English---subject+verb+object and I think the hard parts of her are the vocabulary and tones...you know, Chinese belongs to Sino-Tibetan language family, so we have many different vocabulary compared with languages in Europe and some other areas... So do you non-Chinese people think Putonghua is hard?...I ask so because many of my compatriots regard putonghua(I think many people think putonghua=Chinese)as the hardest language in the world...that's why many Chinese feel shocked when we see foreigners use Chinese fluently....