Hi, yes and no. I think every language is hard to learn for beginners/foreigners, but if you are really interested in, you have a good chance. My main problem in chinese language is, to remember how to write the symbols/characters/written language. It´s memorysport :-) Another problem is the pronunciation of a word (which tones). Kathrin

I think it's very difficult but I don't think it's harder for native English speakers to learn Chinese than it is for Chinese to learn English. While Chinese characters and tones are so completely foreign to us, on the other hand, in comparison to English, Chinese has quite simple grammar rules. While there are thousands of individual characters to learn, English has (i think) the most words of any language (over a million i believe) - and is constantly growing/evolving - moreso with the internet. So while Chinese is difficult to learn, i dont think it's any more so than English - particularly from a Chinese perspective. Personally I have found that to get a good basis of Chinese language, it's really important for an English speaker to get a degree of mastery of Pinyin as without being able to understand how something is pronounced, or the different ways to say things, it's effectively useless. Recently I have begun to study characters too, which is like being at the foot of some massive mountain, but I find the more i study them, the more I retain and it is immensley satisfying to recognise them in day to day life (i live in a town with a huge Chinese population). At the same time though, i look at characters, i think about the meanings and I cant for the life of me work out how anyone can read them. I am hoping for the day where they just suddenly 'click' and I can actually comprehend them, rather than looking at them as seperate words/meanings that just don't link up in my mind...if that makes sense ;)

I think it would be hard for me because of the Chinese characters that are used.

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hi i think so, because it'are a simbols or characters very hard to do for me, it's a language completely different to mine, spanish