Why it is Chinese language is very hard to learn? What is something on that language why everyone had found it hard to deal with it? Even me, I am having a hard time learning it even if I am going to spend most of my free time, vacant and break at school.
I am Amanda, a 22-year-old student schooling at Europe. I want to learn about the Chinese language but language never sinks in to my brain. Like most of European people, I also have a hard time speaking Chinese language, study their alphabet characters, and pronounce the words in a manner like the one they do. I do not even know if my accent is correct (forgive me for that).
Seeing Chinese people uttering their local language, they seem to look fine. However, their Chinese kids go through with tough times, driving their parents crazy to teach them well. When kids get old, the next step for them is to learn their impossibly complicated alphabet Chinese characters in scribbling shopping list and love notes. After their language learning, and after nurturing them, it is very overwhelming to see them speak the language well.
I know other may complain about this but I just want to emphasize that the language is hard for me, an English speaker who tries to speak and learn Chinese language as an adult who goes through with several process using textbooks, conversation patterns, tapes, etc. I mean learning and speaking Chinese language is hard for me and for other European people who spent several years bashing their heads just to acquire this learning. Frankly speaking, other foreign languages are not as hard as I imagine. In fact they are not equally difficult for most learners and speakers.
Perhaps it will depend on which country you came from. For example, a French native can basically learn and speak Italian faster compare to Americans, and the average of Americans can typically master German faster and easier compare to average Japanese, so on. So what I am contending is that Chinese language is hard to compare to… well if you want to compare to other language you may care to tackle to. Basically, I mean is that the language of Chinese folks is not only hard for English speakers like us, but is it is also difficult in an absolute terms. Meaning, Chinese language is also difficult for them - Chinese people.
If you won’t believe me, then why don’t you ask Chinese people you encountered? Majority of them will say their language is hard, the hardest language on Earth, hard as hell. Perhaps, Chinese people who know how to speak their language well must be awarded and recognized simply because they are born as Chinese. In some point, Chinese people generally become aware about their high status native language.
The fact is in the linguistic yarn. Chinese people deserve their reputation for a heartbreaking difficulty. Those who are attracted with the language (like me) are eager because of its difficulty and daunting complexity, making it challenging to learn, requiring more patience and eagerness.