i've spent a considerable amount of time trying to learn mandarin. I can tell you there's far less sound diversity in mandarin. sound recognition is incredibl

i've spent a considerable amount of time trying to learn mandarin. I can tell you there's far less sound diversity in mandarin. sound recognition is incredibly hard for that language for english speakers. everything sounds the same and even the four tones can be difficult to differentiate between. what makes it even harder is all the words and grammar that's left out, that the listener is forced to determine everything from context which makes it even harder if you didn't recognize a few of the words.