Chinese speaking: easy. The accent is not particularly harder than any other language. The grammar is mostly simple. Chinese writing: doubles the difficulty of

Chinese 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