yeah! hahahah i also noticed that. by the way, i prefer learning korean. more easier to learn. Thank you so much to King Sejong who simplified korean writing system
It balances out with the grammar and sound morphing I guess. Can say this from learning a bit of Korean and Mandarin haha. Characters like Hanzi suit Mandarin because of all of the homophones and Hangeul suits Korean because of how words are multi-syllabic and can sometimes change depending on the situation or the word before it I guess. Also, thank goodness for Sejong-daewang, because Hanja would have not suited that language at all. 0_0
And besides Chinese is not at all difficult. Unlike most languages, it doesn't have conjugations and infections. However learning to read Chinese takes time, that is all. Very misleading video, not to mention it ended up being an ad.
Actually to learn Chinese faster and more efficiently is to have conversations in Chinese with someone.That’s how my mom taught me English and it worked pretty well
Wrong information!!! Every Chinese character has individual meaning is true, but most of them need a combination with at least two Chinese character to makeup a word, like his example in the video, “mao” is mean cat or hat or spear, BUT !! We don’t fuckin speak like that, who fuckin use one character to make a sentence? If you want to say “hat” , you have to put another character “zi” behind it, which is “Maozi”. And spear should spell as “Changmao.” Like in English, if a vocabulary has “ pre” in the front part, yon basically could know this word meaning has something about the previous. It’s totally same situation in Chinese, people really need to stop only use one Chinese character as a word every time. It’s like my friend told me that the letter “W” in English was represent water, because when the people started created the language, they use shape of wave, which is letter “ W” to represent liquid. So when I thirsty , can i just ask waitress can I have some W? You think people can understand me? Man WTF is W, you need to spell all the shit, so I can understand. Same thing in Chinese, man wtf is mao? You wanna a maozi or maomi ?! 只是我小小的建议 希望你可以采纳 这样对于想学习汉语的人有非常大的帮组 谢谢！
I want to learn the biography of maozedong (hehehe, don't take this seriously , it is just a joke!) Anyway you type one the Chinese character wrongly. It is 帮助, not 帮组, also please put commas in your mandarin sentence, as it kinda of hard to understand with that mandarin sentence of yours. Lastly, you forgot to put 这 as the first word of the mandarin sentence. Anyway, this is a really good advice, I hope more language teaching and introduction video would do this.
I know, english is only slightly phonetic, and has many irregular words. When he said memorize "Shape", you just memorize the strokes in the position and order, in English if I heard the word "knight" and then try and write it down without knowing how to spell it, its going to come out as something like "nait". This is what I find stupid in these videos.
I don't think any language is hard if it's trained right. Apparently people have forgotten how languages are learned by babies.. well you can't learn it the same way but there's things you can take from it... for example, in Mandarin, learn the words that you feel you need, then learn the pronunciation, then make sentences. There are a million ways to express one thing but after studying in combination with listening, this stuff will make sense.
Are you confused with the words Mandarin and Chinese Language? The former is 華語，普通話。The latter is 華文，中文。Personally i think learning Mandarin is easy! But learning to write is tough but that's also because many are not bothered to go to the advance level in learning the language, in fact many were discouraged by their parents and peers to invest more time in learning the language, for reasons like - it is not the official commercial/business language, you don;t need to use it that much you just need to be able to speak and read some of the words that's good enough!
Simon Hou well it wasn't that for me...I sorta grew up on China...Chinese grammar is pretty simple and unless you want to be some scholar, daily conversation isn't hard.
Of course you feel confused when you look at a short passage written in pinyin. I am a native speaker and I found that annoying. Pinyin does not exist before, it is a phonetic rule. Both my parents received higher education, my mom is a college professor. In their generation, schools did not teach pinyin, so they are pretty bad at pinyin, but they are good at Chinese. Pinyin equals the English phonetic alphabet, English speakers will also feel struggles if they have to read a passage with only phonetic alphabets instead of the real words. Don't remember shi shi shi shi, remember 石 师 狮 事.
Chinese is easier to learn than English! Compare to english, it doesnt really require too much grammar to be understood. Only different tones can be a little difficult.
That's true, if you have good ear, grammar is quite simple, more than many other languages. Try to learn Russian grammar, that's really hard. And I'm not Russian at all.
Kevin L Learning a totally different language makes you smarter. I'm a Mandarin Chinese speaker, and I feel to have gained a lot in my English learning. I strongly suggest every English speaker learn Mandarin. Mandarin learning will give you a totally New method in thinking.
Ugh, so many comments here claiming mandarin is easy. The FSI has spent years of research labeling each and every language and putting them into categories based on how long it takes for students to learn the language, and yet your snobby comments that looks something like "lol Michael phelps stupid, Chinese easy, English hard lol!" doesn't make your point any better. How about looking at the learning curve of each language and stop trying to be tough, because you all look like 8 year old kids with their cap on backwards. It's cringeworthy.
I'll say, that as a native English speaker that is relentlessly studying Mandarin, I agree that the spoken language isn't as difficult as I thought it would be. I would never go as far as calling it EASY, but I legitimately do not find it to be difficult either.
Chinese is like hard at the first time, since you overcome the tone, it's gonna be easier and easier, but other languages are like easy at the beginning but getting harder when you get it deeper.
Hmm, I still feel like the writing isn't very hard to learn. It's for sure a lot of work to remember all the words and strokes, but I usually learn to write one or two words a day. But as I said, it's still a challenge but it's definitely a fun one!
And now with the digital age, typing has mostly taken over most cases where you'd write as well. You're absolutely correct, his explanations were hiding facts to make it sound more difficult.
Sophia gonzalez It might pay to reform your learning method. It's very much possible to get around a HSK 5 kind of level in 2 years, and if you already have that kind of level, I'd probably describe your level as good. If not, then yeah, make sure you change your current methods or resources I reckon.
I dont know chinese But I used to live in Japan, and I studied Japanese along side chinese students. A chinese told me that Japanese is more difficult than chinese. She said yes, chinese uses more characters, but Japanese characters have too many pronunciations and readings depending on context compared to chinese which mostly only have one reading.. And me knowing Japanese, I know that every single japanese character has atleast minimum 2 different readings, and go up to characters up to 5 for the same symbol which my chinese friend said doesnt happen in chinese.
Chinese is both hard and easy, depending on how you look at it. The grammar is extremely similar to English, and it's very straightforward. It's also quite easy to grasp the pronunciation after some practice. The hardest part is definitely learning to read and write it properly, speaking it is, in fact, a piece of cake. I've been studying it for some time, I'm far from being good at it, but I can hold a decent conversation and I can read most of what I can say. It's hard, but it's also very easy at the same time. I've got a friend who is Finnish, and I studied Finnish in school, and Finnish is definitely harder, both in pronunciation and grammatically. I fucking love people that don't even try to learn a language and then they're like "well, people say it's hard, so it has to be impossible right?". EDIT: Fixed some random grammar mistakes.
in chinese, one pronunciation can correspond to different characters. One character can have multiple pronunciations for example, "和" has 6 pronunciations. Even some of us native speakers usually forget how to write or pronounce words. We also need captions when watching movies to avoid misunderstanding. And we have a lot of pun jokes, thanks to those homophones. XD
Mandarin is pretty simple, it's just a bit difficult for anglos because it's different. People get intimidated by the tones but once you actually start speaking and listening it will come to you naturally, like any language. I went from learning 你好 to hsk 4 in 7 months Combination of Glossika, Memrise, Clozemaster, and most importantly 5 lessons per week with a tutor
I totally agree, I've started studying Chinese 6 weeks ago by mainly watching Netflix series in Chinese and using dictionaries plus watching some YT videos, and so far I think it's pretty cool when you finally can make sense of it, so the learning process becomes easier. I think it's just about breaking down that initial barrier. I believe anyone can learn Chinese
I am from Beijing, we could read almost anything from the age of 8. I remember reading newspapers and novels when I was around 9/10. No way you need to be 12 to able to read encyclopedia.
I read Harry Potter in the 3rd grade along with all my friends in English that is. It's not that hard. My cousin in China was reading Chinese young adult novels at that age too.
I’m from Singapore but the Chinese here is more chill we aren’t really expected to learn a certain amount of words but we do need to learn a certain amount of words for tests
In Arabic it is similar to Mandarin Chinese in some ways, so I find it easy. I assume for English speakers it would be very difficult. I wish you all luck in learning Chinese!
Although arabic grammar is a really tough part of the language, "connecting" to the language is fairly straight forward, if you see the root forms of a word. The way you "transform" the very read to the word library have the same base form, is interesting and they have a super logical alphabet... Mandarin is making everything ridiculously tough! In terms of arabic you only need Modern Standard arabic and then pick up Egyptian arabic... Who the F wants to learn all these illogical characters in Mandarin...
I’m Chinese And we all learn Chinese when we were like 5 months old like the memorising method But it’s impossible to learn Chinese if you are an adult, you can! But it takes a long time
If you want to learn (i.e, you are motivated, by whatever reason) - you will learn it. This is the same in any endeavor, which is why a university student studying Chinese to get a degree or please his parents might learn enough to pass his tests (and then forget it the year after he graduates), but a guy who fell in love with a Chinese girl, got married and moved to China will speak like a native in 5-10 years...
Actually, English is the most unphonetic language out of all European languages. It has lots of silent letters in its words (e.g. the e in "love, have, lie, name, there" or the h in "hour, honor" or the w in "write" ) Besides that, there are many words you write almost the same but they sound completely different (like the "ough" in bough, borough, through, tough, though, cough). And even though you pronounce two vowel sounds you just write one vowel symbol/character/letter. (such as the "a" in "apex" pronunciation: [ˈeɪpɛks]) Here the letter A represents [eɪ] (e + ɪ diphthong). However, it can also be [æ] like in "have" or "can" or [a:] like in "palm" or [ɔː] like in "warm"...
1. The way Chinese learn Chinese is by memorization 2. To; two; too or hi; high; hight 3. 1/3 characters are pictorial: 木（wood, literally a stick above the ground and roots below), 日( sun, historically was a circle with a dot, now evolved into square with a line). So it’s better to as why certain characters look the way they look if you can’t memorize them like most anybody. 4. Other 1/3 of characters are combination of pictorial characters. Learn the basic characters, so you can piece together complex characters: 日(sun) + 月(moon) = 明(bright); 木(wood) + 木(wood) = 林(forest); 木+木+木=森(jungle) 5. And yes, the other 1/3 do use phonetics. The base character will usually indicate the sounds they should make. 苗 (miao ) , 猫(māo,1); 才(caí), 财(caí) Nest time, ask more questions, understand the characters and their structures. If you still can’t work them through, use the same strategy you do for teach; taught; need, needed; or learn, learned, learnt
1.When you learn English you have a) to remember the meaning; b) the shape Cap is different with cat; c) pronunciation: the e in dear sounds different as in bear. The Chinese has thousands of different characters wile the English only has 5 different words? No, they also have thousands different combinations. The Chinese different combinations in strokes, the English different combinations of letters. So for this there's nor difference in difficulties. Even the English do not know their own vocabulary and how to pronounce. They have many writing contests because no one is able to write correct English, he one with the least mistakes wins. 2. Chinese is using tones only for single words. English is using many more tones and several other sound possibilities. For example the sentence "This is green" ...just pronounce 'green' higher and it becomes a question. We can pronounce several words for ex. like "yes" in a way that it means something between "Yes, for sure"..and "Yes, in no way". When you use Latin letters to describe the sound of a character it gives a wrong impression: in the Shi verb we see many different characters and yes it's a funny thing this poem, we have the same in English it is called "Chaos". Each language has its own difficulties and the difficulties of the English, as we can see in "Chaos" are not less than in the Shi poem. 3. Here you're completely right: you can't learn Chinese (or several other Asian languages) as you learn English. The same problem have Asian people when they learn English. I saw the same problem in Vietnam, in fact the problem is there a bit more complex but basically the same. So many people are telling that Vietnamese is very difficult ...and they come with more or less the same arguments as you do and whom are wrong. We can see - very young children who speaks fluently Vietnamese - highly educated persons who find the language to difficult My conclusion is: those foreigners are smart and those kids are normal...why are the kids able to learn it without problems and the adults not?.... Well, there must be something wrong with the teaching; and indeed: Vietnam has little money and the amount of people that want to learn it is low...so there's no money to do a good research...and they did see that the English teaching is developed a lot, so the translated to course & copied the method...which is not working for learning Vietnamese.
English is an incredibly hard language to truly master. You realise that category 5 means it's harder for English speakers because there's essentially no common vocabulary, not that it's hard as a language...
Don't exaggerate. It is difficult, but English is equally difficult as a foreign language for Chinese people. In fact you don't need to memorize the characters if you just need to talk with people. The Shi-Shi-Shi story is just an extreme example which was written in classical Chinese. It is not spoken language.
Mandarin is something you cannot learn by meaning alone, you have to study the reason behind the character or the phrase. And that's why China is rich in history and culture, because people back then were very philosophical. Go check out Lao Tzu, Sun Tzu, and the three kingdoms.
I'm Chinese and I find Chinese very hard even though I'm already PRIMARY 3 I failed all my Chinese exams But I can speak Tagalog (a language that some Filipinos speak) I have a problem with me😂
Thanks for the info. I've been teaching myself Chinese through the HelloChinese app and the Drops app and doing fairly well so far, but now I'm going to try the Speed Mandarin app!
It is not that difficult but I was born i China i speaks mandarin and my family speaks mandarin too but they speaks other Chinese language too but if u wanna learn try to speaks to Chinese who speaks mandarin and speak mandarin oftenly and we have a lot of pronunciation in mandarin like A BUNCH but it’s not that difficult after you got mandarin and like also if you wanna learn mandarin it would be way easier to figure out a word that pronounce the same for example hao you just have to look at how it spells in mandarin and you will figure out there is a difference between so let me show u different hao spells the first one is好 号 豪 耗 you have to look at the words and you have to listen to what word the person is using in a sentence and also you have to learn pinyin like there’s a bunch of things steps to learn but one day you will get it and it is totally not that complicated
The beauty about learning languages is that you will never completely understand everything, you are constantly learning. I have been studying Mandarin for 8 years and studied in China for 2 of those years, however, I am still learning new content everyday. People interpret fluency differently, but, for me, being able understand movies, tv shows and full conversation took me 3 years.
Finally, all of above are just simplified Chinese characters. look at the traditional Chinese characters, that can make you crazy. for example chicken： jī simplified: 鸡 traditional: 雞 turtle ：guī simplified:龟 traditional: 龜 .................................................
i luv traditional characters, they make more sense relating to the meaning and pronunciations ,based on their original strokes, the simplified one will probably be less logical when considering the meaning to its shape tho, but this applies to advanced learners, simplified version is the way to go
Here are some differences between Simplified and Traditional Chinese. Don't be scared. 秋千 鞦韆 忧郁的乌龟 憂鬱的烏龜 惊涛骇浪 驚濤駭浪 台湾 臺灣/台灣 Even we Chinese（in Main Land China）think Traditional Chinese（actually it's Complicated Chinese, because it's still used as daily and authentic written language in HK, TW and Macau) is not easy.But we can understand Traditional Chinese. P.S. Simplified Chinese has deleted some characters in some words, like: 轻松 輕鬆 松树 松樹 And you can see that 松 and 鬆 are the same in Simplified.Simplified Chinese assimilated some characters.Because there are some specific characters in works in Traditional Chinese. In fact,秋千 and 鞦韆 is the case.Because both 秋 and 千 exist in Traditional Chinese. Chinese writing system is not easy, even for native Chinese users.
Shandy Leng the traditional Chinese is much easier than the simplified one because the traditional Chinese looks like the meaning for the word. For example, the traditional門 looks like a door while the simplified version,门 does not
even for Chinese people learning Chinese is soooo difficult so Chinese use alphabet to help learn. Chinese used alphabet and simplified Chinese character to make it easy and reduce illiteracy rate. It does work actually. So one syllable reflects a lot of different characters
Sorry, I disagree! People who want to study Chinese please don't believe this. Btw, the example of ' shi ' is ancient Chinese, which we no longer using today.
I can speak and read Chinese. I think it's easier than English and all European languages. In China, you only need to learn 3000 characters which is completed pretty much in the 4th grade and you will never need to check a dictionary, or even check a definition ever again because characters form words that you can decipher, not some latin roots that are so arbitrary. But in American high school, you need around 30,000 English vocab to be considered high school level... It is just so freaking difficult for an ESL. And for the grammar, too, Chinese is so much easier and harder to make mistakes than European languages. Plus, you don't have to memorize female and male nouns... why do you separate nouns into female and male?!! You are making the language unnecessarily hard. So, if you know how to speak Mandarin already, Chinese is soooooooooooooooooooooooo much easier than any of the European languages.
If you're a chinese native speaker of course it's easy, for europeans it's not. The number of english vocabulary is not relevant if they are easy to distinguish. Most of Chinese vocabulary are two sillable words with identical sound and different meaning. Moreover, it's freaking hard to recognize the part of speech(verb,noun,adjective,adverb) of each vocabuary, you have to memorize all of them. Whereas, in english, once you learned the rules, you will understand how it works the part of speech even with vocabularies that you don't know.
wic wong and try sounding smart when you write essays. You would have to twist words around so you don't sound like a second grader by following the pretty much nonexistent Chinese grammar rules. (Well at least I was never taught grammar when I went to elementary school in China)
dont know chinese But I used to live in Japan, and I studied Japanese along side chinese students. A chinese told me that Japanese is more difficult than chinese. She said yes, chinese uses more characters Like 5000 to understand, while japanese has 2000 to understand , but Japanese characters have too many pronunciations and readings depending on context compared to chinese which mostly only have one reading.. And me knowing Japanese, I know that every single japanese character has atleast minimum 2 different readings, and very common to go up to characters up to 5 for the same symbol which my chinese friend said doesnt happen in chinese
I dont know chinese But I used to live in Japan, and I studied Japanese along side chinese students. A chinese told me that Japanese is more difficult than chinese. She said yes, chinese uses more characters Like 5000 to understand, while japanese has 2000 to understand , but Japanese characters have too many pronunciations and readings depending on context compared to chinese which mostly only have one reading.. And me knowing Japanese, I know that every single japanese character has atleast minimum 2 different readings, and very common to go up to characters up to 5 for the same symbol which my chinese friend said doesnt happen in chinese.
I started learning Mandarin a week ago( and mind you, my country has no connection to China at all, no one speaks Mandarin here at all) and personally, it isn't as difficult do far as I thought it would be. I can't of course write the characters, but it's not thaaat hard to recognise them. Tones are a huge issue for me , but the grammar seems fairly easy so far. Leys hope I actually learn the language. Also, learning new languages has given me a new understanding of my own mother tongues( yes mother tongues, I have four different home languages)
Chinese is difficult even for us, Japanese, who have a big advantage in Learning Chinese characters. I especially find it difficult in pronunciation and tones. I can't even imagine the difficulties for Western people to learn Chinese from scratch...
With only 1000 chars and 5000 words you can understand 95% of the language. With 3500 chars and 10000 words it goes to 99.9%. An average adult english speaker knows 20000-30000 words.
Fernando Mir yea but that's characters. You combine characters to form new meanings. You can't simply just memorize individual characters and expect to understand stuff.
Individual character also serves as a root, and one doesn't need to learn another language to understand these roots. Huge percetage of Chinese words are built like "aqua duct" "sub way" "auto mobile", which are self explanatory. You don't really need to memorize these Chinese word.
How could you compare characters with words? There are unlimited combination of characters to form words in Chinese. Compared to 24 letters in English, there are thousands of characters you need to know. And from all these characters, you still need to know all their different combinations, meanings, and stuff... That must go up to more than 10000 words in English.
I dont think that han-chinese is that difficult. The grammar is so easy u can learn it in a day. You can use pinyin and is a good start for learning. The characters are simplified unlike traditional ones. Learning something new takes interest and free will. Of you have that, you will have no problems to learn han-yu
Pinyin is only for beginner Chinese students. If you go higher level up, there are too many homophones like that Shi poem there. It won't work. For beginner level yes, but not for higher levels. There are six levels in any language learning.
In short, Chinese is not difficult, believe me Chinese grammar must be the simplest one in the word. Chinese characters maybe a little complex to European languages speakers, but it's very easy to recognize and even to guess...
shuai zhang your Chinese though so of Course you would say. Your opinion really on this matter isn’t relevant because you don’t study it as a 2nd language. That’s like me saying English is much easier because it’s all directly read and spoken
Personally, if I wanted to learn Mandarin, I would probably learn it by moving to China with a native speaker. I mean, the best and worst way to learn a language is to move to where it's a native tongue.
tbh mandarin is easy for me, but i just can’t really remember the characters. i do better in pinyin and i remember the tone marks for each letter easily lol. i can write pinyin, but i can’t write the chinese characters easily, and i remember basic chinese characters but it’s still so hard for me lmao. i prefer pinyin than the characters.
@@weirdbutawesome8703 Chinese isnt that hard... You just have to listen and learn words, there is no grammar. Try slavic languages or German/French... They are hell. Even tho German grammar is a bit harder than French, but French pronunciation is omg.
@@我是你-i4s isnt hard to you, but if the FSI ranks it at level 5 (extremely difficult) then of course its gonna be hard to a lot of people, its not a personal opinion, but then again that depends on your mother’s tongue. Knowing English for example helps you a lot in spanish because the words are already similar, same could be said for languages similar to chinese like japanese for example
@@weirdbutawesome8703 FSI ranked it for English speakers. And indeed Chinese is a very stupid language without grammar, you dont need much thinking and using brain while learning it or speaking it, ur just memorizing symbols and words lol, im not Chinese, im Russian, and Russian has lots of grammatic rules so anyway its harder than chinesz
i don't get why people claim that Chinese is the hardest... in my view, Japanese is slightly harder than Chinese. In order to be able to speak Japanese fluently, you'll need to memorize -71 Hiraganas -70 Katakanas(minus 1 because ヲwo is never used) - about more than 500 grammatical cases -the pronunciation of each kanji,which keeps changing in different cases(some only have 1 or 2 sounds.....some have up to 10 different sounds) -honorific and humble speech(counted in the grammatical case) -and finally, last but the worst= you have to memorize every single kanji which is estimated by their Ministry of Education to be around 2000 characters, 2136 characters to be exact(but some only learned 1945 characters. speaking of 1945, don't they have American Flashbacks?) yes......no kidding, it is just that Difficult. RESPECT THOSE WHO STUDIES JAPANESE, WHICH INCLUDES ME ツ
Bit of a rant below, I know I'm taking this pretty seriously, but c'mon, I know there will be some poor saps out there who will watch this video and think 'oh jeez Rick, this language is so tough, this guy said so without covering all the bases' and totally miss out on learning Mandarin Chinese. Honestly, guys, anything can sound difficult if you describe it as such. The dude is cherry picking information to sell an app. Mandarin is easy as any other language. First of all, alphabet, Mandarin does have pinyin (an official romanisation standard set by the PRC) at the very least or even bopomofo (an older system that uses unique characters for each sound in Mandarin Chinese) if you are willing to go that far so phonetic representations of characters aren't as far fetched as he makes them seem. Plus, everyone types these days, so you don't have to worry as much because you can type through the Roman alphabet anyway. Secondly, tones? There are only four of them in Mandarin excluding the toneless characters, all are manageable and there are only a couple of sandhis. You should not think of shí and shì as one word with two tones as well. Think of them as two separate words (like si and sí in Spanish in a way). You would do this if it were different in spelling, so think of a tone as an extension of spelling as it affects how you say a word. Better yet, when you can get past it, don't deceive yourself with pinyin after you already know a character, because the characters are pretty easy to recognise. You see things like Chinese characters everywhere and can pretty much recognise them without going into detail, like a stop sign, wet floor, slippery road, radioactive symbol (okay, so not all that daily, woops) but you get my idea. This is really evident in context as well. 石 and 十 sound identical, but are they ever really used alone in Mandarin? Nooooo, son. 石頭 is stone and 十個 would be '10 of something'. This logic would be close to being true if we were talking about Cantonese, but if we were talking Cantonese which DOES feature one character words all the time, it is much more diverse in terms of consonant endings and tones. 十 is SAHP and 石 is SEHK in Cantonese, meaning that you're going to tell them apart anyway. People don't speak languages just to inconvenience themselves, hence why Mandarin has a lot of compound words. Characters are often just that. Just adding onto the argument about how useful context is, the sound that represents 'city' isn't going to be used in the place of a verb, noooo that'll mean 'is' or 'am' my good friends. (Context 是 and 市 are both pronounced SHI4 - but the modern word for city is 城市 -CHENG2SHI4) Also learning a language without any form of memorisation is just wack, so I won't even comment further on that one. The infamous SHI poem is a bit of a joke too, read that in Cantonese and they'd all sound completely different. I believe it's also worth noting that it's in Classical Chinese that he's reading with Mandarin pronunciation (Classical Chinese is only read... well these days at least anyway?) I say this because someone would noooooot write that way today, aaaaalthough... you could totally understand it based on the meaning of individual characters. Third reason was off as well, fonts are based on books, so you could just get some digital resources and zoom in a bit like any other language and five words to a sentence isn't really big. I sure hope nobody is put off learning this wonderfully rich language because of this video. I mean man come on, we're all human, babies learn this language and grow up with it just as you did with yours, if it didn't make sense, it would have evolved to make sense... and it has! Just find someone who doesn't have a hidden motive and they can explain you how and why Mandarin works well and isn't really that hard with the right motivation and effort. Enjoy!
In fact, learning Chinese needs to be spoken frequently. If you are interested, you can try it on Chinese dubbing, which can also be graded according to your pronunciation.
I just argued with someone about the difficulty being subjective, or relative to the person's interest/motivation. I took just one semester of Mandarin, and I thought it was way easier to learn than my initial attempts with a SOV language like Korean. I decided to stay with Korean just because I had already done it for longer, and was having a lot of fun learning it. However, I disagree with people attempting to make a monster out of Chinese. Yes, you have all those curve balls, but that's sort of the fun, wouldn't you think? It isn't like it is insurmountable. People have certainly done it. There are so many resources, too.
I just think of individual strokes as a letter forming a picture. And many English words also have alternate definitions as well. Each Mandarin character is different, yes, but there are basic radicals that compose these characters that make them easier to identify. Mandarin can be simplified. The tones are simple, and it reminds me of English, how if you pronounce a word slightly wrong, it might be an entirely different word. 50 + meanings for one word with different syllables may seem odd at first, until you learn about the other words used in Mandarin to combine with words to change it's context and meaning. This guy is totally right that these are the most challenging things about Mandarin but I was offering my thoughts.
Remember , we've got six ways to create our characters . 象形 is the one you said that the characters looks that the means itself , but it's only for nouns (except fly 飛 , ancient people said that it looks like a bird flying in the sky) The others are:指事 會意 形聲 轉注 假借 指事 If you can show it as a picture , then try to let them know what you're going to say (you can't show what " up " for just a picture , so ancient people draw a line , and put a dot above the line , and create the word"上" ! ) 會意 also , you can't show it as a picture , so you put two characters that have been already created , to create a new word ! And when people saw , they knew what the characters mean (the word " blind" is the combination of 亡 目 . 亡 means "die" ,目means "eyes" , so "die" and "eyes" together means "blind" !) 形聲 is that the characters is the combination of its sound (sometimes the same sometimes not) , and what the characters is about ( the word "liver" 肝 ,which pronounce as "Gan" , and it's about our body , so it's 月 at the left , but ancient people couldn't find any characters to let the whole part of the characters meaningful , so they found a characters which is also pronounce as "Gan" and put it in the right part of the characters and they create the word "liver" 肝） （It seems that my English is terrible )
I don't think Mandarin or difficult or easy...I'm American and don't know mandarin but you need to take this into account; these languages require two different lingual methods of thinking. anyone can learn any language, but after about 9-13 years of age, we tend to lose a bit of our natural learning ability, hence, we need classes. Chinese may be simpler from a vocabulary standpoint IF you think of it as an English speaker. A syllable to us is either one word or just a part of a word. To a mandarin speaker the syllable could mean many words depending on the tone. In short, the pronunciation makes the word different. This isn't true in English. The pronunciation or intonation of a word is always the same, though you may sound weird if you don't do this in the standard form of a given region. This is an accent. A perfect example is an American speaking to an English person from Britain. We understand each other fine for the most part, but English folks sound like they're singing to Americans, while English folks feel we speak in a monotone.....basically a syllable to a mandarin speaker is a totally different word depending on tone. To English speakers, its seen as talking a little funny....Two different approaches to language
During my first job, i worked with Japanese partner, my spoken english is not so good, these Japanese are not good at english also , then we wrote han cheracters when we cannot understood each other by English.
I have the same feeling about Japanese as a Mandarin speaker. Also English is not hard to learn if you have ever lived in any English speaking countries.
I thought the same thing. When I watched this video 1 year ago. BUT now 1 year later. Chinese is not that hard as people exaggerate. I would say the first 3 months were. But after you learn Pinyin, Tones, have a foundation on Vocabulary and Grammar, then it's pretty smooth. And learn Characters!! Whoever is frustrated right now! Dont give up it will get easier!! As long there is passion in learning chinese!!!! 加油!!!
i think the hardest thing to learn about Chinese is to learn how to write the words, but it's easy to learn how to speak.But English is a lot difficult when it comes to grammar.If you don't know grammar, you can't either read or speak.
Mandarin has lesser tones, but there are too many similarities in tones in different words that can easily confuse the listeners on what words are being said. Cantonese does have more tones, but at least they have more different sounds that can differentiate between different words.
I was invited to China and when I arrived there, I did not know any chinese word. I am from Germany and it is very difficult there to get some material of the chinese language like dictionaries, teaching books etc.. After my arriving there, I had to go to the toilet at the airport. So I learned through the labels (WC 厕所) and the sign of the door (女 男) in looking, where the men and women are going in and out the meaning of these signs intuitively. The chinese guy, who invited me, explained me later the pronounciation and some other words in German, because I am German. At the exit of the airport I walked trough the 出 口 and when i looked back I read 入 口! It was for me logically clear that this only means exit (出 口 ) and entrance (入 口). Because I was surrounded with a lot of chinese characters, so I learned them first! I learned first reading and writing and most words I understood it intuitively from the context. Then I asked my chinese guy, how it is pronounciated, then I took a look in my 汉 语 / 德 语 词 典 (Chinesisch Deutsch) Lexikon (dictionary). From Chinese-Television I learned very much, because everything was subtitled in Chinese Characters. After a half year, I was able to speak and to write Chinese fluently and started to give lessons in Chinese in an university! Meine Erfahrung ist: My experience is: 我 的 经 历 : Chinesisch ist die einfachste zu erlernenden Sprache der Welt! Chinese is the most easiest language of the world to learn! 在 世 界 学 习 汉 语 很 太 简 单 分 别 很 太 不 难 !
For native Chinese speakers trying to learn English, that's probably true. But for native English speakers trying to learn Chinese it is like Chinese speakers learning Chinese!
Many people heard others said it’s difficult, so they gave up, you still haven’t learn it, how do you know the difficulty? Everything is hard at the beginning, until you master certain rules, practice it frequently . I believe you can speak it. Chinese is not that hard. I remembered a story that the little horse crossed the river, the little horse asked the squirrel. The squirrel said, "The river is too deep, don’t go, or you will be drowned." Then little horse went to ask the cow, “Very shallow, you can cross it.” said the cow. But the cow is larger than the little horse , and the squirrel is smaller than the little horse. How can you believe them? You have to try it by yourself. If you do not try it, how do you know if you can cross it? It's like English is easy for others, but it's hard for me. I've been studying for 16 years, but I can not speak very well.
Not even close. If it was all that easy, many foreigners wouldn't make so many grammar mistakes when they write essays, and I am talking about foreigners who have been studying in China for many years.
I have learned Chinese for 8 years in kindergarten and elementary and heck I still having hard time to read.. I could only speak but still stuck once in a while..
It's category V because of its writing system, phonology, and tonal system. But grammatically it's still closer to Indonesian and English than most Category I-III languages. (Category II is just Deutsch lol)
我－喜欢上－她了 （I have fallen for her／I have a crush on her） 我－喜欢－上－她－了（I start liking to fuck her） 我－喜欢－上－她了（I like to fuck “ta le”） 我喜欢－上－她了（“woxihuan” fucked ’her/"ta le"‘） 对了吗？(我是中国人） Is this alright?
Don't be put off by the video. It really depends on your goal of learning the language, do you just wanna be able to speak or you wanna to be able to master it further to be able to read and write well using the language? The latter require you to at least be able to recognise and memorise enough number of chinese characters and that's tough, that's true for quite a number of people apparently. I'm sort of a native Mandarin speaker but i only start learning the language after i go to school (we speak chinese dialect at home and the dialect is very difference from Mandarin indeed). I would say if you just wanna to be able to speak Mandarin it would be much easier. Learning to speak Mandarin is easier than learning to speak English for the latter you need to know grammar. While chinese does have grammar rule but one doesn't need to know the chinese grammar to be able to speak and read fluently in Chinese. I barely know of any chinese grammar rule but i have no problem using the language.
for me the most difficult thing in mandarin are the tones and it isn't that difficult.... I think 😅😅... for me... mandarin or chinese is really interesting to learn...
All u need u to do is find a friend and watch movies. Thats how i learn english and chinese. But chinese is really difficult though unless u got a friend who can practice with u everyday or often, u may not master it very well.
The best way to learn Chinese characters is using cluster that's what I learnt from elementary school. For example 脚foot 脑brain 肝liver 腿leg many characters relating to body have 月 as a part of the character. There are a lot patterns help you memorize characters using cluster.
Didn't realize this was going to be a 6 minute long ad
yeah! hahahah i also noticed that. by the way, i prefer learning korean. more easier to learn. Thank you so much to King Sejong who simplified korean writing system
It balances out with the grammar and sound morphing I guess. Can say this from learning a bit of Korean and Mandarin haha. Characters like Hanzi suit Mandarin because of all of the homophones and Hangeul suits Korean because of how words are multi-syllabic and can sometimes change depending on the situation or the word before it I guess. Also, thank goodness for Sejong-daewang, because Hanja would have not suited that language at all. 0_0
And besides Chinese is not at all difficult. Unlike most languages, it doesn't have conjugations and infections. However learning to read Chinese takes time, that is all. Very misleading video, not to mention it ended up being an ad.
At least it was an entertaining ad lol
You just got scammed into watching 6 minutes of advertising.
Actually to learn Chinese faster and more efficiently is to have conversations in Chinese with someone.That’s how my mom taught me English and it worked pretty well
Hy jungkook
I learned English by watching UA-cam's videos lol
3 reasons why Mandarin is difficult, 1 reason why Cantonese is difficult: *Because it's fucking difficult from the root*
Wrong information!!! Every Chinese character has individual meaning is true, but most of them need a combination with at least two Chinese character to makeup a word, like his example in the video, “mao” is mean cat or hat or spear, BUT !! We don’t fuckin speak like that, who fuckin use one character to make a sentence? If you want to say “hat” , you have to put another character “zi” behind it, which is “Maozi”. And spear should spell as “Changmao.”
Like in English, if a vocabulary has “ pre” in the front part, yon basically could know this word meaning has something about the previous.
It’s totally same situation in Chinese, people really need to stop only use one Chinese character as a word every time.
It’s like my friend told me that the letter “W” in English was represent water, because when the people started created the language, they use shape of wave, which is letter “ W” to represent liquid. So when I thirsty , can i just ask waitress can I have some W? You think people can understand me?
Man WTF is W, you need to spell all the shit, so I can understand.
Same thing in Chinese, man wtf is mao? You wanna a maozi or maomi ?!
只是我小小的建议 希望你可以采纳 这样对于想学习汉语的人有非常大的帮组 谢谢！
I agree. You ought to make a video! You know what you're doing!
I want to learn the biography of maozedong (hehehe, don't take this seriously , it is just a joke!)
Anyway you type one the Chinese character wrongly. It is 帮助, not 帮组, also please put commas in your mandarin sentence, as it kinda of hard to understand with that mandarin sentence of yours. Lastly, you forgot to put 这 as the first word of the mandarin sentence.
Anyway, this is a really good advice, I hope more language teaching and introduction video would do this.
Tan Wenxi its ok without the"这"because we already know what he want to say
Edward Playz23 this is for politeness, actually in this situation it is OK without the 这
Tan Wenxi 哦，明白，只是给给建议而已
technically learn english:
->meaning
->pronunciation
->spelling
->tenses
that’s 4 things already
There's no tenses in chinese, except "already" or time that specifies when.
Tenses in English isn’t even has hard as tenses in a Romance language.
I know, english is only slightly phonetic, and has many irregular words. When he said memorize "Shape", you just memorize the strokes in the position and order, in English if I heard the word "knight" and then try and write it down without knowing how to spell it, its going to come out as something like "nait". This is what I find stupid in these videos.
I don't think any language is hard if it's trained right. Apparently people have forgotten how languages are learned by babies.. well you can't learn it the same way but there's things you can take from it... for example, in Mandarin, learn the words that you feel you need, then learn the pronunciation, then make sentences. There are a million ways to express one thing but after studying in combination with listening, this stuff will make sense.
I am a Chinese but I still think Chinese is so damn hard.Awkward situation always happened :/
I'm Scared I don’t because I’ve learned chinese for 9 years then I stopped last year in year 8
what’s the motive for you
I'm Scared Hello, I’m a speaker of
Taishanese, Cantonese, some mandarin and Kaipingnese
Same fam,borderline pass for Chinese exams : “D
。。。。。。说得好
I'm a native mandarin speaker, and i still think that mandarin is the hardest language😕
Simon Hou (ಥ_ಥ)
Simon Hou If you want to learn chinese,I can help you，I am a chinese.
Are you confused with the words Mandarin and Chinese Language? The former is 華語，普通話。The latter is 華文，中文。Personally i think learning Mandarin is easy! But learning to write is tough but that's also because many are not bothered to go to the advance level in learning the language, in fact many were discouraged by their parents and peers to invest more time in learning the language, for reasons like - it is not the official commercial/business language, you don;t need to use it that much you just need to be able to speak and read some of the words that's good enough!
Simon Hou well it wasn't that for me...I sorta grew up on China...Chinese grammar is pretty simple and unless you want to be some scholar, daily conversation isn't hard.
Mandarin is extremely easy. The grammar is simple, and there are no cases like Slavic languages. The only hard thing about Mandarin is the writing.
"English is hard, but Chinese is even harder."
-Nas Daily
tbh but I gotta go to the English is harder but chinese is easier
@@yi_n14 do u know chinese
No english is one of the easiest language on planet. But native pronounciation is little difficult.
@@yi_n14 bruh your Chinese
@iitn8437 NAH! Maybe Spanish is easy but NOT ENGLISH.
Of course you feel confused when you look at a short passage written in pinyin. I am a native speaker and I found that annoying. Pinyin does not exist before, it is a phonetic rule. Both my parents received higher education, my mom is a college professor. In their generation, schools did not teach pinyin, so they are pretty bad at pinyin, but they are good at Chinese. Pinyin equals the English phonetic alphabet, English speakers will also feel struggles if they have to read a passage with only phonetic alphabets instead of the real words. Don't remember shi shi shi shi, remember 石 师 狮 事.
"Shi" also can mean "Shit, excrement, poo poo" by the way XD
Zharas Kerimbay But your Chinese is perfect👍
I want to practice the Shi Shi poem right now 😂
You still want to try now ,as a Chimese maybe I can gelp
Chinese is easier to learn than English! Compare to english, it doesnt really require too much grammar to be understood. Only different tones can be a little difficult.
That's true, if you have good ear, grammar is quite simple, more than many other languages. Try to learn Russian grammar, that's really hard. And I'm not Russian at all.
Cecilia Wang of course, because u r Chinese 😞😞
Cecilia Wang 你想的也太简单了吧，你从生下来就开始听，每个人都觉得自己的母语最简单。中文你仔细想想，真的很难。
Cecilia Wang It's the word recognition that bothers the 屎it out of learning chinese.
喜憨仔
learn Chinese can make a person become intelligent
Kevin L Learning a totally different language makes you smarter. I'm a Mandarin Chinese speaker, and I feel to have gained a lot in my English learning. I strongly suggest every English speaker learn Mandarin. Mandarin learning will give you a totally New method in thinking.
As a person who speaks both English and Chinese, learning Japanese helped me connect those two languages together XD
For me learning another language is easy, but i always suck at maths
Well why am I not smart? 😔
maybe illiterate haha
Ugh, so many comments here claiming mandarin is easy. The FSI has spent years of research labeling each and every language and putting them into categories based on how long it takes for students to learn the language, and yet your snobby comments that looks something like "lol Michael phelps stupid, Chinese easy, English hard lol!" doesn't make your point any better. How about looking at the learning curve of each language and stop trying to be tough, because you all look like 8 year old kids with their cap on backwards. It's cringeworthy.
I'll say, that as a native English speaker that is relentlessly studying Mandarin, I agree that the spoken language isn't as difficult as I thought it would be. I would never go as far as calling it EASY, but I legitimately do not find it to be difficult either.
yesss
I agree
@@joedragich(In no particular order) I feel like, Japanese, Chinese, English, Arabic and Polish are the top 5 hardest languages
Chinese is like hard at the first time, since you overcome the tone, it's gonna be easier and easier, but other languages are like easy at the beginning but getting harder when you get it deeper.
dont scare foreignes, not that difficult at all. Chinese is the easiest if do.not consider writting.
Hmm, I still feel like the writing isn't very hard to learn. It's for sure a lot of work to remember all the words and strokes, but I usually learn to write one or two words a day. But as I said, it's still a challenge but it's definitely a fun one!
And now with the digital age, typing has mostly taken over most cases where you'd write as well.
You're absolutely correct, his explanations were hiding facts to make it sound more difficult.
it's really not easy. I've been learning it for 4 years and i still suck
Sophia gonzalez
It might pay to reform your learning method. It's very much possible to get around a HSK 5 kind of level in 2 years, and if you already have that kind of level, I'd probably describe your level as good. If not, then yeah, make sure you change your current methods or resources I reckon.
I dont know chinese But I used to live in Japan, and I studied Japanese along side chinese students. A chinese told me that Japanese is more difficult than chinese. She said yes, chinese uses more characters, but Japanese characters have too many pronunciations and readings depending on context compared to chinese which mostly only have one reading.. And me knowing Japanese, I know that every single japanese character has atleast minimum 2 different readings, and go up to characters up to 5 for the same symbol which my chinese friend said doesnt happen in chinese.
Chinese is both hard and easy, depending on how you look at it. The grammar is extremely similar to English, and it's very straightforward. It's also quite easy to grasp the pronunciation after some practice. The hardest part is definitely learning to read and write it properly, speaking it is, in fact, a piece of cake. I've been studying it for some time, I'm far from being good at it, but I can hold a decent conversation and I can read most of what I can say. It's hard, but it's also very easy at the same time. I've got a friend who is Finnish, and I studied Finnish in school, and Finnish is definitely harder, both in pronunciation and grammatically.
I fucking love people that don't even try to learn a language and then they're like "well, people say it's hard, so it has to be impossible right?".
EDIT: Fixed some random grammar mistakes.
in chinese,
one pronunciation can correspond to different characters.
One character can have multiple pronunciations
for example, "和" has 6 pronunciations.
Even some of us native speakers usually forget how to write or pronounce words.
We also need captions when watching movies to avoid misunderstanding.
And we have a lot of pun jokes, thanks to those homophones. XD
I've been learning Chinese for more than 30 years
YINDA lol
Seriously
Jesus, you wasted a big part of your life while you could learn it in 5 years, with effective learning...
@@3388-g5m then how did you write this comment .
@@3388-g5m maybe youre stupid？
起步略难，但主要问题就两个，第一个是像背单词一样背3000个常见汉字以及读音，第二个是把这3000个汉字按偏旁部首分类，然后按类别记词组。
find the key and you will know how to learn Mandarin.
Mandarin is pretty simple, it's just a bit difficult for anglos because it's different. People get intimidated by the tones but once you actually start speaking and listening it will come to you naturally, like any language.
I went from learning 你好 to hsk 4 in 7 months
Combination of Glossika, Memrise, Clozemaster, and most importantly 5 lessons per week with a tutor
I totally agree, I've started studying Chinese 6 weeks ago by mainly watching Netflix series in Chinese and using dictionaries plus watching some YT videos, and so far I think it's pretty cool when you finally can make sense of it, so the learning process becomes easier. I think it's just about breaking down that initial barrier. I believe anyone can learn Chinese
I am from Beijing, we could read almost anything from the age of 8. I remember reading newspapers and novels when I was around 9/10. No way you need to be 12 to able to read encyclopedia.
Hongjia Xu oh yeaaaa by 2nd grade we're expected to real novels already
Hongjia Xu read
I read Harry Potter in the 3rd grade along with all my friends in English that is. It's not that hard. My cousin in China was reading Chinese young adult novels at that age too.
When I was 5, I could recognize almost any street name/place name I see.
I’m from Singapore but the Chinese here is more chill we aren’t really expected to learn a certain amount of words but we do need to learn a certain amount of words for tests
In Arabic it is similar to Mandarin Chinese in some ways, so I find it easy. I assume for English speakers it would be very difficult. I wish you all luck in learning Chinese!
Although arabic grammar is a really tough part of the language, "connecting" to the language is fairly straight forward, if you see the root forms of a word. The way you "transform" the very read to the word library have the same base form, is interesting and they have a super logical alphabet... Mandarin is making everything ridiculously tough! In terms of arabic you only need Modern Standard arabic and then pick up Egyptian arabic... Who the F wants to learn all these illogical characters in Mandarin...
Jesus, I give up.
Sorry, I forget it’s my mother tongue.
石室诗士施氏 = A poet, surname Shi, lived in a stone den.
I didn’t realised mandrin was hard because it’s easy for me for some reason and
*i wrote all the chinese answers in 1 seconds.*
I’m Chinese
And we all learn Chinese when we were like 5 months old like the memorising method
But it’s impossible to learn Chinese if you are an adult, you can! But it takes a long time
中文一点也不难啊，就有的方言很难
If you want to learn (i.e, you are motivated, by whatever reason) - you will learn it. This is the same in any endeavor, which is why a university student studying Chinese to get a degree or please his parents might learn enough to pass his tests (and then forget it the year after he graduates), but a guy who fell in love with a Chinese girl, got married and moved to China will speak like a native in 5-10 years...
Actually, English is the most unphonetic language out of all European languages. It has lots of silent letters in its words (e.g. the e in "love, have, lie, name, there" or the h in "hour, honor" or the w in "write" ) Besides that, there are many words you write almost the same but they sound completely different (like the "ough" in bough, borough, through, tough, though, cough). And even though you pronounce two vowel sounds you just write one vowel symbol/character/letter. (such as the "a" in "apex" pronunciation: [ˈeɪpɛks]) Here the letter A represents [eɪ] (e + ɪ diphthong). However, it can also be [æ] like in "have" or "can" or [a:] like in "palm" or [ɔː] like in "warm"...
1. The way Chinese learn Chinese is by memorization
2. To; two; too or hi; high; hight
3. 1/3 characters are pictorial: 木（wood, literally a stick above the ground and roots below), 日( sun, historically was a circle with a dot, now evolved into square with a line). So it’s better to as why certain characters look the way they look if you can’t memorize them like most anybody.
4. Other 1/3 of characters are combination of pictorial characters. Learn the basic characters, so you can piece together complex characters: 日(sun) + 月(moon) = 明(bright); 木(wood) + 木(wood) = 林(forest); 木+木+木=森(jungle)
5. And yes, the other 1/3 do use phonetics. The base character will usually indicate the sounds they should make. 苗 (miao ) , 猫(māo,1); 才(caí), 财(caí)
Nest time, ask more questions, understand the characters and their structures. If you still can’t work them through, use the same strategy you do for teach; taught; need, needed; or learn, learned, learnt
Are you learning Chinese?
Thats why im falling in love with mandarine language. 我真的爱汉语 😄
Well, for an English-speaking person it's better to learn Cantonese because in English-speaking countries the most used Chinese language is Cantonese.
胤 我在天津生活了两年，知道比别的方言比起来天津话与北京话是最很接近的，最大的区别可能在于声调，但从来没听说过天津话就是𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯!
1.When you learn English you have a) to remember the meaning; b) the shape Cap is different with cat; c) pronunciation: the e in dear sounds different as in bear. The Chinese has thousands of different characters wile the English only has 5 different words? No, they also have thousands different combinations. The Chinese different combinations in strokes, the English different combinations of letters.
So for this there's nor difference in difficulties. Even the English do not know their own vocabulary and how to pronounce. They have many writing contests because no one is able to write correct English, he one with the least mistakes wins.
2. Chinese is using tones only for single words. English is using many more tones and several other sound possibilities. For example the sentence "This is green" ...just pronounce 'green' higher and it becomes a question. We can pronounce several words for ex. like "yes" in a way that it means something between "Yes, for sure"..and "Yes, in no way".
When you use Latin letters to describe the sound of a character it gives a wrong impression: in the Shi verb we see many different characters and yes it's a funny thing this poem, we have the same in English it is called "Chaos". Each language has its own difficulties and the difficulties of the English, as we can see in "Chaos" are not less than in the Shi poem.
3. Here you're completely right: you can't learn Chinese (or several other Asian languages) as you learn English. The same problem have Asian people when they learn English.
I saw the same problem in Vietnam, in fact the problem is there a bit more complex but basically the same. So many people are telling that Vietnamese is very difficult ...and they come with more or less the same arguments as you do and whom are wrong.
We can see
- very young children who speaks fluently Vietnamese
- highly educated persons who find the language to difficult
My conclusion is: those foreigners are smart and those kids are normal...why are the kids able to learn it without problems and the adults not?....
Well, there must be something wrong with the teaching; and indeed: Vietnam has little money and the amount of people that want to learn it is low...so there's no money to do a good research...and they did see that the English teaching is developed a lot, so the translated to course & copied the method...which is not working for learning Vietnamese.
English is an incredibly hard language to truly master. You realise that category 5 means it's harder for English speakers because there's essentially no common vocabulary, not that it's hard as a language...
Gotta agree that I can’t even remember 20 words
Don't exaggerate. It is difficult, but English is equally difficult as a foreign language for Chinese people. In fact you don't need to memorize the characters if you just need to talk with people. The Shi-Shi-Shi story is just an extreme example which was written in classical Chinese. It is not spoken language.
Mandarin is something you cannot learn by meaning alone, you have to study the reason behind the character or the phrase. And that's why China is rich in history and culture, because people back then were very philosophical. Go check out Lao Tzu, Sun Tzu, and the three kingdoms.
I'm Chinese and I find Chinese very hard even though I'm already PRIMARY 3
I failed all my Chinese exams
But I can speak Tagalog (a language that some Filipinos speak)
I have a problem with me😂
Same here in India i find my native language Hindi harder than Mandarin
Thanks for the info. I've been teaching myself Chinese through the HelloChinese app and the Drops app and doing fairly well so far, but now I'm going to try the Speed Mandarin app!
Daily conversation is super easy,but ancient articles are hard to learn
你好我是林升邦
Which is difficult Chinese and Japanese for English speaker?
I am learning Chinese on my own and i am not even 14 but it isnt impossible 😃
Jimin and Viña are a cute pair 加油！
Jimin and Viña are a cute pair I'd like to help you if you download the app WeChat and add me (peterwu111), I live in mainland China
아름 ahaha I'm 14 and I'm fluent in English, Chinese, and just started learning Korean. Maybe we can chat?
I would like to learn Japanese as well. But one thing at a time... I'm already trying to learn 3 languages 😄😣😅
It is not that difficult but I was born i China i speaks mandarin and my family speaks mandarin too but they speaks other Chinese language too but if u wanna learn try to speaks to Chinese who speaks mandarin and speak mandarin oftenly and we have a lot of pronunciation in mandarin like A BUNCH but it’s not that difficult after you got mandarin and like also if you wanna learn mandarin it would be way easier to figure out a word that pronounce the same for example hao you just have to look at how it spells in mandarin and you will figure out there is a difference between so let me show u different hao spells the first one is好 号 豪 耗 you have to look at the words and you have to listen to what word the person is using in a sentence and also you have to learn pinyin like there’s a bunch of things steps to learn but one day you will get it and it is totally not that complicated
Just out of curiosity, would this app be able to teach Japanese pronunciations? They are different from Mandarin pronunciations almost all the time.
I found my city "Kuala Lumpur" 😂😂😂
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当你熟悉汉字的边旁部首的规律后，可以举一反三的，比方说，“月”字旁的字一般都指身体部位，“氵”则一般与水有关，“钅”则代表了金属或金属引申的含义有关，以此类推，学会了一些基础汉字，你就不断的自行学习或接受新的字和词，举一反三！
Self taught myself to be fluent mandarin and Cantonese and it is not as hard as you say it is
but can you write it?
The beauty about learning languages is that you will never completely understand everything, you are constantly learning. I have been studying Mandarin for 8 years and studied in China for 2 of those years, however, I am still learning new content everyday. People interpret fluency differently, but, for me, being able understand movies, tv shows and full conversation took me 3 years.
你能看懂这段话吗？
我们可以成为语伴！互相学习语言！
How many hours a day did you study when you started?
牛逼
The hardest part of Chinese is not only a word, but also a lot of deep meaning.
Finally, all of above are just simplified Chinese characters.
look at the traditional Chinese characters, that can make you crazy. for example
chicken： jī
simplified: 鸡 traditional: 雞
turtle ：guī
simplified:龟 traditional: 龜
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yea, your best role is to discourage people from learning chinese.
yes
doli99 sjyiao my half Taiwanese half Japanese friend told me: traditional Chinese has to many strokes that it makes me wanna kms
i luv traditional characters, they make more sense relating to the meaning and pronunciations ,based on their original strokes, the simplified one will probably be less logical when considering the meaning to its shape tho, but this applies to advanced learners, simplified version is the way to go
尾生子煦 I think traditional are more beautiful and simplification only crash the beautiful look of this language.
Here are some differences between Simplified and Traditional Chinese. Don't be scared.
秋千 鞦韆
忧郁的乌龟 憂鬱的烏龜
惊涛骇浪 驚濤駭浪
台湾 臺灣/台灣
Even we Chinese（in Main Land China）think Traditional Chinese（actually it's Complicated Chinese, because it's still used as daily and authentic written language in HK, TW and Macau) is not easy.But we can understand Traditional Chinese.
P.S. Simplified Chinese has deleted some characters in some words, like:
轻松 輕鬆
松树 松樹
And you can see that 松 and 鬆 are the same in Simplified.Simplified Chinese assimilated some characters.Because there are some specific characters in works in Traditional Chinese.
In fact,秋千 and 鞦韆 is the case.Because both 秋 and 千 exist in Traditional Chinese.
Chinese writing system is not easy, even for native Chinese users.
Tbh I can’t read the tradition chinese I only know the simplified one...
Shandy Leng the traditional Chinese is much easier than the simplified one because the traditional Chinese looks like the meaning for the word. For example, the traditional門 looks like a door while the simplified version,门 does not
William Gamz idk I grew up learning simplified so I feel the simplified is easier
今晚，你的男人在哪里？Where is your boy tonight?
Meep Meep 我希望他是个绅士
@@shandyleng 不可能吧，谁看不懂繁体字啊?
even for Chinese people learning Chinese is soooo difficult so Chinese use alphabet to help learn. Chinese used alphabet and simplified Chinese character to make it easy and reduce illiteracy rate. It does work actually. So one syllable reflects a lot of different characters
Sorry, I disagree! People who want to study Chinese please don't believe this.
Btw, the example of ' shi ' is ancient Chinese, which we no longer using today.
I believe it because I have studied Chinese for a couple of years. So, it's true that is one of the hardest languages in the world.
Bruce ZHANG I'm fluent in mandarin and yet I still can't talk to my grandparents. Fuck this dialects shit.
Hey！I'm a Chinese native speaker！Can you teach me English？In return I can teach you Mandarin or our dialect！
Bruce ZHANG I’m Taiwanese and we still use those words ☺️
Bruce ZHANG but when a word is the same tone as another how do you know which one is being used?
As an Asean, I have found out that French or other European languages except English are more difficult than Chinese😂
I can speak and read Chinese. I think it's easier than English and all European languages. In China, you only need to learn 3000 characters which is completed pretty much in the 4th grade and you will never need to check a dictionary, or even check a definition ever again because characters form words that you can decipher, not some latin roots that are so arbitrary. But in American high school, you need around 30,000 English vocab to be considered high school level... It is just so freaking difficult for an ESL. And for the grammar, too, Chinese is so much easier and harder to make mistakes than European languages. Plus, you don't have to memorize female and male nouns... why do you separate nouns into female and male?!! You are making the language unnecessarily hard. So, if you know how to speak Mandarin already, Chinese is soooooooooooooooooooooooo much easier than any of the European languages.
If you're a chinese native speaker of course it's easy, for europeans it's not. The number of english vocabulary is not relevant if they are easy to distinguish. Most of Chinese vocabulary are two sillable words with identical sound and different meaning. Moreover, it's freaking hard to recognize the part of speech(verb,noun,adjective,adverb) of each vocabuary, you have to memorize all of them. Whereas, in english, once you learned the rules, you will understand how it works the part of speech even with vocabularies that you don't know.
wic wong you can't expect to understand everything by memorizing individual characters...you have to combine them to make more words...
wic wong and try sounding smart when you write essays. You would have to twist words around so you don't sound like a second grader by following the pretty much nonexistent Chinese grammar rules. (Well at least I was never taught grammar when I went to elementary school in China)
dont know chinese But I used to live in Japan, and I studied Japanese along side chinese students. A chinese told me that Japanese is more difficult than chinese. She said yes, chinese uses more characters Like 5000 to understand, while japanese has 2000 to understand , but Japanese characters have too many pronunciations and readings depending on context compared to chinese which mostly only have one reading.. And me knowing Japanese, I know that every single japanese character has atleast minimum 2 different readings, and very common to go up to characters up to 5 for the same symbol which my chinese friend said doesnt happen in chinese
Yeah in Greek we have 3 genders, that make the language unnecessarily hard but it’s how it is I guess 😜
I dont know chinese But I used to live in Japan, and I studied Japanese along side chinese students. A chinese told me that Japanese is more difficult than chinese. She said yes, chinese uses more characters Like 5000 to understand, while japanese has 2000 to understand , but Japanese characters have too many pronunciations and readings depending on context compared to chinese which mostly only have one reading.. And me knowing Japanese, I know that every single japanese character has atleast minimum 2 different readings, and very common to go up to characters up to 5 for the same symbol which my chinese friend said doesnt happen in chinese.
I started learning Mandarin a week ago( and mind you, my country has no connection to China at all, no one speaks Mandarin here at all) and personally, it isn't as difficult do far as I thought it would be. I can't of course write the characters, but it's not thaaat hard to recognise them. Tones are a huge issue for me , but the grammar seems fairly easy so far. Leys hope I actually learn the language.
Also, learning new languages has given me a new understanding of my own mother tongues( yes mother tongues, I have four different home languages)
Chinese is difficult even for us, Japanese, who have a big advantage in Learning Chinese characters.
I especially find it difficult in pronunciation and tones.
I can't even imagine the difficulties for Western people to learn Chinese from scratch...
事实上，欧美人学汉语并没有想象中那么难😅！
@@宇神教的信徒 How about Japanese?
With only 1000 chars and 5000 words you can understand 95% of the language. With 3500 chars and 10000 words it goes to 99.9%. An average adult english speaker knows 20000-30000 words.
Fernando Mir yea but that's characters. You combine characters to form new meanings. You can't simply just memorize individual characters and expect to understand stuff.
TMD SB , There are also lots of idioms that make learning Chinese difficult
TMD SB but characters are also formed by characters lol tmdsb
Individual character also serves as a root, and one doesn't need to learn another language to understand these roots. Huge percetage of Chinese words are built like "aqua duct" "sub way" "auto mobile", which are self explanatory. You don't really need to memorize these Chinese word.
How could you compare characters with words? There are unlimited combination of characters to form words in Chinese. Compared to 24 letters in English, there are thousands of characters you need to know. And from all these characters, you still need to know all their different combinations, meanings, and stuff... That must go up to more than 10000 words in English.
4:13 I love hoe the Chinese in the background literally says: "I don't know" In the background.
This is said by a Chinese person so no worries there
I dont think that han-chinese is that difficult. The grammar is so easy u can learn it in a day. You can use pinyin and is a good start for learning. The characters are simplified unlike traditional ones. Learning something new takes interest and free will. Of you have that, you will have no problems to learn han-yu
Nano but I find it hard to sound smart on my essays since the grammar is so early.
Pinyin is only for beginner Chinese students. If you go higher level up, there are too many homophones like that Shi poem there. It won't work.
For beginner level yes, but not for higher levels.
There are six levels in any language learning.
pinyin is only for beginners. if you read everything with pinyin then thats not true chinese. we have to "memorize" each character
Best advertising ever!
Btw is it in playstore? Cant find it
In short, Chinese is not difficult, believe me Chinese grammar must be the simplest one in the word. Chinese characters maybe a little complex to European languages speakers, but it's very easy to recognize and even to guess...
Sunny Yang 兄弟啊 天天说中文难咋利于传播啊。。。。唉。。。。
Sunny Yang 关键是真的不难啊，掌握到日常生活可以熟练使用的程度并不难。相对的，英语也不简单啊，有多少从幼儿园就开始学英语，一直到大学都模棱两可的。。。如果真的那么足够简单，还用这么长时间也学不会？
Sunny Yang 多想想 多看看 整理思路和逻辑 这是个好习惯 加油
Sunny Yang 那你还觉得中文比较难吗？
shuai zhang your Chinese though so of
Course you would say. Your opinion really on this matter isn’t relevant because you don’t study it as a 2nd language. That’s like me saying English is much easier because it’s all directly read and spoken
Personally, if I wanted to learn Mandarin, I would probably learn it by moving to China with a native speaker. I mean, the best and worst way to learn a language is to move to where it's a native tongue.
tbh mandarin is easy for me, but i just can’t really remember the characters. i do better in
pinyin and i remember the tone marks for each letter easily lol. i can write pinyin, but i can’t write the chinese characters easily, and i remember basic chinese characters but it’s still so hard for me lmao. i prefer pinyin than the characters.
I used to wrote thousands of 'shēng zì' when I was in primary school. I'm currently working on learning japanese and it's hard af
im so proud to be Chinese, I can use the hardest language in the world naturally
Every language is hard, and you will have to study any other language for years to be fluent, just like Chinese.
我是你 yeah, but some languages are definitely harder than other languages
@@weirdbutawesome8703 Chinese isnt that hard... You just have to listen and learn words, there is no grammar. Try slavic languages or German/French... They are hell. Even tho German grammar is a bit harder than French, but French pronunciation is omg.
@@我是你-i4s isnt hard to you, but if the FSI ranks it at level 5 (extremely difficult) then of course its gonna be hard to a lot of people, its not a personal opinion, but then again that depends on your mother’s tongue. Knowing English for example helps you a lot in spanish because the words are already similar, same could be said for languages similar to chinese like japanese for example
@@weirdbutawesome8703 FSI ranked it for English speakers. And indeed Chinese is a very stupid language without grammar, you dont need much thinking and using brain while learning it or speaking it, ur just memorizing symbols and words lol, im not Chinese, im Russian, and Russian has lots of grammatic rules so anyway its harder than chinesz
i don't get why people claim that Chinese is the hardest...
in my view, Japanese is slightly harder than Chinese.
In order to be able to speak Japanese fluently, you'll need to memorize
-71 Hiraganas
-70 Katakanas(minus 1 because ヲwo is never used)
- about more than 500 grammatical cases
-the pronunciation of each kanji,which keeps changing in different cases(some only have 1 or 2 sounds.....some have up to 10 different sounds)
-honorific and humble speech(counted in the grammatical case)
-and finally, last but the worst= you have to memorize every single kanji which is estimated by their Ministry of Education to be around 2000 characters, 2136 characters to be exact(but some only learned 1945 characters. speaking of 1945, don't they have American Flashbacks?)
yes......no kidding, it is just that Difficult.
RESPECT THOSE WHO STUDIES JAPANESE, WHICH INCLUDES ME
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u think like that because you haven't learned chinese...
Bit of a rant below, I know I'm taking this pretty seriously, but c'mon, I know there will be some poor saps out there who will watch this video and think 'oh jeez Rick, this language is so tough, this guy said so without covering all the bases' and totally miss out on learning Mandarin Chinese.
Honestly, guys, anything can sound difficult if you describe it as such. The dude is cherry picking information to sell an app. Mandarin is easy as any other language. First of all, alphabet, Mandarin does have pinyin (an official romanisation standard set by the PRC) at the very least or even bopomofo (an older system that uses unique characters for each sound in Mandarin Chinese) if you are willing to go that far so phonetic representations of characters aren't as far fetched as he makes them seem. Plus, everyone types these days, so you don't have to worry as much because you can type through the Roman alphabet anyway. Secondly, tones? There are only four of them in Mandarin excluding the toneless characters, all are manageable and there are only a couple of sandhis. You should not think of shí and shì as one word with two tones as well. Think of them as two separate words (like si and sí in Spanish in a way). You would do this if it were different in spelling, so think of a tone as an extension of spelling as it affects how you say a word. Better yet, when you can get past it, don't deceive yourself with pinyin after you already know a character, because the characters are pretty easy to recognise. You see things like Chinese characters everywhere and can pretty much recognise them without going into detail, like a stop sign, wet floor, slippery road, radioactive symbol (okay, so not all that daily, woops) but you get my idea. This is really evident in context as well. 石 and 十 sound identical, but are they ever really used alone in Mandarin? Nooooo, son. 石頭 is stone and 十個 would be '10 of something'. This logic would be close to being true if we were talking about Cantonese, but if we were talking Cantonese which DOES feature one character words all the time, it is much more diverse in terms of consonant endings and tones. 十 is SAHP and 石 is SEHK in Cantonese, meaning that you're going to tell them apart anyway. People don't speak languages just to inconvenience themselves, hence why Mandarin has a lot of compound words. Characters are often just that. Just adding onto the argument about how useful context is, the sound that represents 'city' isn't going to be used in the place of a verb, noooo that'll mean 'is' or 'am' my good friends. (Context 是 and 市 are both pronounced SHI4 - but the modern word for city is 城市 -CHENG2SHI4) Also learning a language without any form of memorisation is just wack, so I won't even comment further on that one. The infamous SHI poem is a bit of a joke too, read that in Cantonese and they'd all sound completely different. I believe it's also worth noting that it's in Classical Chinese that he's reading with Mandarin pronunciation (Classical Chinese is only read... well these days at least anyway?) I say this because someone would noooooot write that way today, aaaaalthough... you could totally understand it based on the meaning of individual characters. Third reason was off as well, fonts are based on books, so you could just get some digital resources and zoom in a bit like any other language and five words to a sentence isn't really big. I sure hope nobody is put off learning this wonderfully rich language because of this video. I mean man come on, we're all human, babies learn this language and grow up with it just as you did with yours, if it didn't make sense, it would have evolved to make sense... and it has! Just find someone who doesn't have a hidden motive and they can explain you how and why Mandarin works well and isn't really that hard with the right motivation and effort. Enjoy!
In fact, learning Chinese needs to be spoken frequently. If you are interested, you can try it on Chinese dubbing, which can also be graded according to your pronunciation.
I just argued with someone about the difficulty being subjective, or relative to the person's interest/motivation. I took just one semester of Mandarin, and I thought it was way easier to learn than my initial attempts with a SOV language like Korean. I decided to stay with Korean just because I had already done it for longer, and was having a lot of fun learning it. However, I disagree with people attempting to make a monster out of Chinese. Yes, you have all those curve balls, but that's sort of the fun, wouldn't you think? It isn't like it is insurmountable. People have certainly done it. There are so many resources, too.
I just think of individual strokes as a letter forming a picture. And many English words also have alternate definitions as well. Each Mandarin character is different, yes, but there are basic radicals that compose these characters that make them easier to identify.
Mandarin can be simplified. The tones are simple, and it reminds me of English, how if you pronounce a word slightly wrong, it might be an entirely different word.
50 + meanings for one word with different syllables may seem odd at first, until you learn about the other words used in Mandarin to combine with words to change it's context and meaning.
This guy is totally right that these are the most challenging things about Mandarin but I was offering my thoughts.
I am HSK3 this is a well done ad. Hope you get subscribers, what you say is basically true.
你好！我是中国人！
Hey！I am a Chinese！I can teach you Chinese if you teach me English:)
Very funny, clever advertising!
Remember , we've got six ways to create our characters . 象形 is the one you said that the characters looks that the means itself , but it's only for nouns (except fly 飛 , ancient people said that it looks like a bird flying in the sky)
The others are:指事 會意 形聲 轉注 假借
指事 If you can show it as a picture , then try to let them know what you're going to say (you can't show what " up " for just a picture , so ancient people draw a line , and put a dot above the line , and create the word"上" ! )
會意 also , you can't show it as a picture , so you put two characters that have been already created , to create a new word ! And when people saw , they knew what the characters mean (the word " blind" is the combination of 亡 目 . 亡 means "die" ,目means "eyes" , so "die" and "eyes" together means "blind" !)
形聲 is that the characters is the combination of its sound (sometimes the same sometimes not) , and what the characters is about ( the word "liver" 肝 ,which pronounce as "Gan" , and it's about our body , so it's 月 at the left , but ancient people couldn't find any characters to let the whole part of the characters meaningful , so they found a characters which is also pronounce as "Gan" and put it in the right part of the characters and they create the word "liver" 肝）
（It seems that my English is terrible )
你好同志
I don't think Mandarin or difficult or easy...I'm American and don't know mandarin but you need to take this into account; these languages require two different lingual methods of thinking. anyone can learn any language, but after about 9-13 years of age, we tend to lose a bit of our natural learning ability, hence, we need classes. Chinese may be simpler from a vocabulary standpoint IF you think of it as an English speaker. A syllable to us is either one word or just a part of a word. To a mandarin speaker the syllable could mean many words depending on the tone. In short, the pronunciation makes the word different. This isn't true in English. The pronunciation or intonation of a word is always the same, though you may sound weird if you don't do this in the standard form of a given region. This is an accent. A perfect example is an American speaking to an English person from Britain. We understand each other fine for the most part, but English folks sound like they're singing to Americans, while English folks feel we speak in a monotone.....basically a syllable to a mandarin speaker is a totally different word depending on tone. To English speakers, its seen as talking a little funny....Two different approaches to language
For me Japanese, Chinese is not as difficult as English speaker would experience.
Yuki Komatsu because u learnt kanji,i guess
During my first job, i worked with Japanese partner, my spoken english is not so good, these Japanese are not good at english also , then we wrote han cheracters when we cannot understood each other by English.
Me too, a Japanese learner from China.
I have the same feeling about Japanese as a Mandarin speaker. Also English is not hard to learn if you have ever lived in any English speaking countries.
Astonishing, a Japanese is speaking English.
Haha, just for kidding, don’t take it personal.
it might have been an add, but I was entertained the whole time, I think i might check it out!
I thought the same thing. When I watched this video 1 year ago. BUT now 1 year later. Chinese is not that hard as people exaggerate. I would say the first 3 months were. But after you learn Pinyin, Tones, have a foundation on Vocabulary and Grammar, then it's pretty smooth. And learn Characters!! Whoever is frustrated right now! Dont give up it will get easier!! As long there is passion in learning chinese!!!! 加油!!!
i think the hardest thing to learn about Chinese is to learn how to write the words, but it's easy to learn how to speak.But English is a lot difficult when it comes to grammar.If you don't know grammar, you can't either read or speak.
I believe that if you learn a language at a young age, it's much easier. So for those who say it's easier, quiet
Mandarin has lesser tones, but there are too many similarities in tones in different words that can easily confuse the listeners on what words are being said. Cantonese does have more tones, but at least they have more different sounds that can differentiate between different words.
你忘了还有一难
台湾 及香港仍用繁体字。其他地方己用简体字
繁体字有逻辑， 简体字倒没有。我教学生时，都要从象形字开始，通过繁体字，才到简体字。
Yana Shishkova 不是每个简体字都没逻辑。
太真实了，不过学中文的话应该没几个人选择学繁体吧，性价比太低了
别忘了还有澳门😂
还有方言
When I saw 猫, I already knew the meaning. Just didn't know the reading as a Japanese person.
师：believe me，Mandarin Chinese is easier than English!
是的，我是个会中文的美国人。学语言最难方面就是语法。其实中文语法，口语，都比较容易的，最难方面是汉字。汉字未必让你失望了。一些高年级的读本就可以啦！
I have to disagree 😂
I was invited to China and when I arrived there, I did not know any chinese word. I am from Germany and it is very difficult there to get some material of the chinese language like dictionaries, teaching books etc.. After my arriving there, I had to go to the toilet at the airport. So I learned through the labels (WC 厕所) and the sign of the door (女 男) in looking, where the men and women are going in and out the meaning of these signs intuitively. The chinese guy, who invited me, explained me later the pronounciation and some other words in German, because I am German. At the exit of the airport I walked trough the 出 口 and when i looked back I read 入 口! It was for me logically clear that this only means exit (出 口 ) and entrance (入 口). Because I was surrounded with a lot of chinese characters, so I learned them first! I learned first reading and writing and most words I understood it intuitively from the context. Then I asked my chinese guy, how it is pronounciated, then I took a look in my 汉 语 / 德 语 词 典 (Chinesisch Deutsch) Lexikon (dictionary). From Chinese-Television I learned very much, because everything was subtitled in Chinese Characters. After a half year, I was able to speak and to write Chinese fluently and started to give lessons in Chinese in an university!
Meine Erfahrung ist: My experience is: 我 的 经 历 : Chinesisch ist die einfachste zu erlernenden Sprache der Welt! Chinese is the most easiest language of the world to learn! 在 世 界 学 习 汉 语 很 太 简 单 分 别 很 太 不 难 !
黄凯剑 中文语法比较简单 汉字太难 最难的应该是阿拉伯语
For native Chinese speakers trying to learn English, that's probably true. But for native English speakers trying to learn Chinese it is like Chinese speakers learning Chinese!
Many people heard others said it’s difficult, so they gave up, you still haven’t learn it, how do you know the difficulty? Everything is hard at the beginning, until you master certain rules, practice it frequently . I believe you can speak it. Chinese is not that hard. I remembered a story that the little horse crossed the river, the little horse asked the squirrel. The squirrel said, "The river is too deep, don’t go, or you will be drowned." Then little horse went to ask the cow, “Very shallow, you can cross it.” said the cow. But the cow is larger than the little horse , and the squirrel is smaller than the little horse. How can you believe them? You have to try it by yourself. If you do not try it, how do you know if you can cross it? It's like English is easy for others, but it's hard for me. I've been studying for 16 years, but I can not speak very well.
but chinese grammar is the easiest
Not even close. If it was all that easy, many foreigners wouldn't make so many grammar mistakes when they write essays, and I am talking about foreigners who have been studying in China for many years.
Chin Poon try writing essays...I sound like a second grader when I write essays
I have learned Chinese for 8 years in kindergarten and elementary and heck I still having hard time to read.. I could only speak but still stuck once in a while..
Chinese is not that hard really, grammatically even simpler than Malay which is agglutinative and inflectional.
To make other people understand your meaning it's not that hard. But writing academic papers or essays in chinese is far away harder than you think.
Enrico Pucci oh yea, I suck at that. You gotta make simple grammar sound...intelligent...
I dunno about that. Saya sudah tahu bagaimana berbicara dengan bahasa malayu (aku orang indo) tapi 我认为汉语语法比较难.
It's category V because of its writing system, phonology, and tonal system. But grammatically it's still closer to Indonesian and English than most Category I-III languages. (Category II is just Deutsch lol)
别吓着孩子们了。“我喜欢上她了”，does anyone knows its four meaning , Foreign friends?
你说得对啊。 你要多讲话， 多念， 多好得听， 结果一定将来会说流利的中文。
完了，我一定学了假汉语，我怎么只能理解两种浅显的意思，XD
我－喜欢上－她了 （I have fallen for her／I have a crush on her）
我－喜欢－上－她－了（I start liking to fuck her）
我－喜欢－上－她了（I like to fuck “ta le”）
我喜欢－上－她了（“woxihuan” fucked ’her/"ta le"‘）
对了吗？(我是中国人）
Is this alright?
Jin Is Lifeu lol
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This video has confirmed why I will probably never attempt to learn Mandarin. Looks like a cool app though!
Don't be put off by the video. It really depends on your goal of learning the language, do you just wanna be able to speak or you wanna to be able to master it further to be able to read and write well using the language? The latter require you to at least be able to recognise and memorise enough number of chinese characters and that's tough, that's true for quite a number of people apparently. I'm sort of a native Mandarin speaker but i only start learning the language after i go to school (we speak chinese dialect at home and the dialect is very difference from Mandarin indeed). I would say if you just wanna to be able to speak Mandarin it would be much easier. Learning to speak Mandarin is easier than learning to speak English for the latter you need to know grammar. While chinese does have grammar rule but one doesn't need to know the chinese grammar to be able to speak and read fluently in Chinese. I barely know of any chinese grammar rule but i have no problem using the language.
Jordan Guay it has one of the easiest grammar I've ever seen lol.
Jordan Guay , Learn to speak is not so tough
The earlier you start learnung it the easier it will be for you
Chinese mandarin is difficult？so where do you put Chinese dialects of different places in China？
not hard at all,no grammer,no rules like western language.
for me the most difficult thing in mandarin are the tones and it isn't that difficult.... I think 😅😅... for me... mandarin or chinese is really interesting to learn...
拉倒吧 文明不同而已 欧洲需要都相对很像，相互学习肯定容易，学中文当然难，就像中国人学英语也是困难的不行，有多少人英语从幼儿园学起一直到硕士甚至博士，其英语水平任不足以应付日常需要的，这样的人大有人在，最烦这种没学过就鼓吹中文难得人，还有为开班赚钱说中文难道人，以及一些以中文难而自豪的国内无知白痴
还有一堆会一点或者母语中文的人说中文超简单。每种语言都很难啊，语种相差大，学习难度也会相对大。勤奋的，有正确学习方法的人自然会相对学得快了。
英语水平如果只是应付日常需要的话，再笨的人认真学几年也就够了，你说的从幼儿园到博士 我真是笑呵呵了，你是玩到博士不是学到博士吧，
@@calmdownbigbrother6405 英语难在 用的机会少啊。。我看人家双语学校的 小朋友学两三年。。就可以流利的对话了。。有个英语四级 听特朗普讲话是毫不费劲。。能说一口流利中文的外国人，竟然听不懂习近平在讲什么。因为他随口一句话就是 感谢诸位为深化文明交流共建共襄盛举。
All u need u to do is find a friend and watch movies. Thats how i learn english and chinese. But chinese is really difficult though unless u got a friend who can practice with u everyday or often, u may not master it very well.
no one borned with languages no one want to learn chinese if they watch your chanal fefore.
I want to learn Chinese. I like a challenge
Well sir, fix your English first before you make some stupid comment and insult.
I am from Kharkov, Ukraine and I an learning Chinese at Confucius Institute in Kharkiv! :)))))
The best way to learn Chinese characters is using cluster that's what I learnt from elementary school. For example 脚foot 脑brain 肝liver 腿leg many characters relating to body have 月 as a part of the character. There are a lot patterns help you memorize characters using cluster.
Loved this video !