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yeah, Chinese is heavy on sounds and glyphs unfamiliar to Westerners, but is really light on syntax and grammer. So: high barrier to entry, but not that steep o
by jes5199 11y ago
yeah, Chinese is heavy on sounds and glyphs unfamiliar to Westerners, but is really light on syntax and grammer. So: high barrier to entry, but not that steep of a learning curve?
- ktRolster 11y agoChinese speaking: easy. The accent is not particularly harder than any other language. The grammar is mostly simple. Chinese writing: doubles the difficulty of the language. If you think of it, the hardest part of any language is the vocabulary. That is going to take the most time, because there are so many things you need to know. I am still learning vocabulary in my native language. Chinese essentially takes the most difficult (time-consuming) part of the language and doubles it. It's also a very fun part of the language
- jonathankoren 11y agoSo many homophones and minimal distance tonal pairs! (Needless to say, puns and word play figure a lot into their humor.) On the other hand, there's no conjugation, no gender, and no pluralizations. So there's that.