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Which one is more difficult to learn, English or Chinese?
I am from China. I live in Singapore for 18 years. Many of my friends, like me are/came from China. We have been studying English as English it is one of the four official languages in Singapore. Newspapers, official documents letters, brochures, flyers and so and so on are all in English. You must learn English if you want to work, want to socialize, want to eat in a western style restaurant, want to shopping and want to complain about something. Now, we can not cannot 100% understand 100% what the locals people are talking. Local people They do not know understand what we speak. about as though every word I spoken is English. [I don't understand what you are trying to say. Your front end logic contradicts your backend sentences.] Writing an email need a lot of time. We I think English is more difficult to learn.
I am have been a Chinese tutor for many years. My students are from Europe, Thailand and local students from primary and secondary schools. Their ages is between range from 6 years old and to 70 years of age; maybe even older. old more. Normally, I explain Chinese in English. One of my adult students is from American. I have had taught him Chinese for more than 4 years. He is continuing to learning. To me I was disappointed, that his Chinese is not better than a three 3 years old Chinese kid. So I think actually Chinese is also not easy to learn.
I feel that there are some different between English and Chinese:
For learning English, it’s direct to learn it. If is easier to learn if you have your vocabulary is good and you learnt more, your English level will be improved. [In my opinion, not true.] What you need to remember many words you found All you have to remember them.
There are many changes challengers in Chinese learning. A Characters are used to can build many phases. [Same as English words] The meaning of the character changes in how the sentence/phrase is built [Same as English. Take the example of play. "He plays well". "He does well in the play"] is different from built phases from it. The phases from same character have different meaning. The non-Chinese people often get confused changing in Chinese learning. The greatest difficulty in learning most Asian languages is the tonal system for someone coming from a non-tonal language. With the exception of Japanese, pronunciation is the most difficult. Writing is easy if you can explain the reason behind why it was written in that way. Chinese have maybe, at most 50 radicals. Once you know them, it is easier to learn the Chinese script. Chinese uses character combination to define the shade and nuance of the meaning. English uses completely different words to do so or need a long way to explain. Take an example, "love" 愛. In English there is only one meaning but has to combine with [many] other words and explanation to define the type of love. In Chinese, we have the 愛情 (love), 熱愛 (adore, to love ardently), 喜愛 (fondness), 戀愛 (romantic love, in love, have an affair), 疼愛 (to love dearly [till it hurts]), 寵愛 (spoiling, pampering) 爱护 (to cherish). In English, you have no idea what all these words have in common unless you know their meaning. In Chinese, at least you know it is some kind of love because of the common character.
In my opinion, I think learning Chinese is more difficult then learning English. What do you think so?
Which one is more difficult to learn, English or Chinese
I am from Chinam but have lived/been living I live in Singapore for the last 18 years. Here there are many friends like me from mainland China. We have been studying English, as English is the official language in Singapore. Newspaper, letters, brochures, flyers and so and on so are all in English. You must learn English if you want to work, want to socialise, want to eat in western restaurants (ha why would you want that, Chinese and Singapore food is much better! 哈哈), want to go shopping and or want to complain or enquire about something. Now, we can not 100% understand the local people when they speak talking. Local people likewise do not know what we speak talk about as though because some of my every words I spoken is are SingChinglish. Writing an email in English needs a lot of time. We think English is more difficult to learn.
I am have been a Chinese tutor for many years. My students are from Europe, Thailand and local primary and secondary schools. Their age is between 6 years old and 70 years old or more. Normally, I explain Chinese in English. One of my adult students is from America; I have taught him Chinese for more than 4 years and although He is continues learning, to me it is disappointing, since his Chinese is not better than a 3 years old Chinese child kid. (don't say kid, child is far better, polite and literate) I think actually Chinese is also not easy to learn.
I feel there are some significant differences between English and Chinese:
For learning English, it’s direct to learn it. If you learn more vocabulary you learnt more, your English level will be improve. What You just need to remember many most of the words you found. *中文也是这样
There are many changes in Chinese learning. A character can build many phases. The meaning of the character is different from built changes with the phrases built from it. The phases from same character have different meaning. The Non-Chinese people often confuse changing these variants in studying Chinese learning. (No in fact both languages have the same issue; meaning changes with uage and context; look at phrasal verbs for example)
In my opinion, I think learning Chinese is more difficult then learning English. What do you think so?
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