#1 through 3 are all saying the same general thing #5 no longer matters because there are online dictionaries that let you draw the character you want to look

#1 through 3 are all saying the same general thing #5 no longer matters because there are online dictionaries that let you draw the character you want to look up #7: What's wrong with Hanyu Pinyin? But it is true that the gulf between English and Chinese is bigger than the gulf between English and a lot of other European languages.