The foreigners find that it is really difficult to learn Chinese language while easy for Chinese to learn English. One of the most reasons is related with Chinese language structure.
1: The pronunciation of Chinese has four tones, cacuminal, nasal sound, explodent and so on, while many of them couldn’t be found in English. Some foreigners think that the most difficult is to master the tone. No matter what kind of tone in English word, your meaning won’t change, in Chinese, even a little change in tone would change the whole meaning.
2: Chinese character is hard to write. There are lots of strokes of a Chinese character and still has the distinction of simple and complex font and still like Song typeface. English word is just combined with A-Z 26 letters.
3: The grammar is really, really very hard to learn as grammar in Chinese is not so preciseness as in English. The Chinese sentence has many ways of saying. In some degree, the person who is saying something may not know its real meaning. Most of the time we depend on our language sense, but for foreigners, they don’t have language sense like Chinese. They would feel puzzled about different meaning expressed using one sentence.
4: If a foreigner couldn’t learn common Chinese language well, classical Chinese will not in the range of considering. Please don’t hope that you could know the meaning of poem.
Chinese language is hard to learn but there are also many foreigners learn it very well. Some of them could even sing Chinese songs. You just need to master the right way to learn, and then you would have great improvement. For you learning you could go to language corner. You would find you proper way to learn Chinese.
