Learning Chinese Chinese is an extraordinary language in my mind ;) its very different from German or English. There are many, many more characters... you have to be care of the pronounciation otherwise you say words you did not want to say =D It is not easy to learn this kind of language, but it is more interesting. In the beginning most people think that it might be impossible to learn, even so after a while you will recognize: it is possible! you can do it and you can have a lot fun. I am still in Germany, so the way of learning is still hard working. Hopefully it will become easier after moving to Shanghai, whereas I am afraid of the Shanghai dialect. I just can understand very clearly spoken Chinese. Maybe I will learn some words of the Shanghai dialect. I guess it would be funny, too. My motivation is always having fun in learning a language, otherwise I am not able to learn it... ;)