The Disadvantage and Advantage of Chinese Language I'm a native speaker, and find it a little bit strange when I really tend to think it to be true that English as an oral language is a little more fluid than Chinese! But what I am also aware of is that Chinese is actually invented as a written language which connected people in different tones. The characters are not necessarily to be pronounced in a particular tone or even not necessarily to be pronounced. And it is facilitated to be readable in a lightning fast speed, due to the sheer link between visual and brain. The visual needn't to be translated into sounds. Chinese has the very popular idiom 一目十行 which describes a person who can read 10 lines of text just in a single glimpse to it. And I started to realize it to be true. In fact, I can imagine if I'm born and raised in a very equal environment that put me to be a native both in English and Chinese, it is definitely in Chinese that I can read faster, maybe several times faster than English!