> No. The Chinese realize their language is a pain in the butt to learn and that the writing system is terrible in comparison to any alphabet system... I used

> No. The Chinese realize their language is a pain in the butt to learn and that the writing system is terrible in comparison to any alphabet system... I used to think this, but you can learn to recognize thousands in less than a year with the right methods, and learning to read after that is comparable in difficulty to learning any new vocab in a European language.