I tried to learn Chinese for a while. I wouldn't say it's exceptionally hard. I mean learning any foreign language is always hard and involves a lot of learning

I tried to learn Chinese for a while. I wouldn't say it's exceptionally hard. I mean learning any foreign language is always hard and involves a lot of learning, which is why I eventually gave up, because I had no real practical use out of it and couldn't motivate myself to put regular work into it. Sure, the characters are hard to remember. It's completely different from European languages, so you have no "ah that almost sounds like a word I know in my language". Pronunciation is unusual, but isn't harder than - let's say - French. The sentence structure and grammar is relatively simple.