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Everyone knows that Chinese is hard. "Hard" is of course subjective, but I think everyone can objectively say that English is easier than Chinese. In fact, easi
by whoisjuan 8y ago
Everyone knows that Chinese is hard. "Hard" is of course subjective, but I think everyone can objectively say that English is easier than Chinese. In fact, easier than most languages.
For that very reason, Chinese doesn't have the potential or practicality to become a default language.
- rococode 8y agoI think the best example of Chinese being "hard" is that a huge number of Chinese-Americans who have spoken Chinese almost daily from childhood can converse fluently but rarely read/write above a middle school level. With many other languages there isn't such a huge difference in required knowledge between being able to speak/listen and being able to read/write.
- iforgotpassword 8y agoFor reading and writing I agree, but just the language itself definitely not. At least not objectively, but how do you define that anyways?
- lern_too_spel 8y agoConsider that you can improve your conversational English by just reading more on your own. This is much more difficult in languages with logographic writing systems.