> Besides, once you've learned Chinese, any European language with an alphabet looks easy to learn. Well, there is the fact that Chinese children learn Pinyin

> Besides, once you've learned Chinese, any European language with an alphabet looks easy to learn. Well, there is the fact that Chinese children learn Pinyin (Chinese romanization) in school. Of course Pinyin attributes different sounds to the letters of the alphabet than Western European languages do, but at least they've already seen the characters when they start learning.