Why Chinese Is So Hard
There is truth in this linguistic yarn; Chinese does deserve its reputation for heartbreaking difficulty. 中文那令人心痛的难度是名副其实的。学习这门语言的人们，除了纯粹以此为乐的，都会对学习中极低的投入产出比感到沮丧。
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- Chinese is so hard but to learn It's pretty hard to quantify a process as complex and multi-faceted as language-learning, but one simple metric is to simply estimate the time it takes to master the requisite language-learning s 2013-05-31
- Chinese Hard Reason 9: cultural conflict Language and culture cannot be separated, of course, and one of the main reasons Chinese is so difficult for Americans is that our two cultures have been isolated for so long. 2013-05-31
- Chinese Hard Reason 8:tonal languages are weird I have to mention this problem because it's one of the most common complaints about learning Chinese, and it's one of the aspects of the language that westerners are notoriously bad at. 2013-05-31
- Chinese Hard Reason 6: there's classical Chinese (wenyanwen) Way too difficult. If you think that after three or four years of study you'll be breezing through Confucius and Mencius in the way third-year French students at a comparable level are reading Di 2013-05-31
- Chinese Hard Reason 5: looking up a word in the dictionary is complicated One of the most unreasonably difficult things about learning Chinese is that merely learning how to look up a word in the dictionary is about the equivalent of an entire semester of secretarial s 2013-05-31
- Chinese Hard Reason 4: U can't cheat by using cognates Chinese is so damn difficult because you can't cheat by using cognates. 2013-05-31
- Chinese Hard Reason 2: It doesn't have the common sense to use an alphabet. To further explain why the Chinese writing system is so hard in this respect, it might be a good idea to spell out (no pun intended) why that of English is so easy. 2013-05-31
- Chinese Hard Reason 3: The writing system ain't very phonetic. So much for the physical process of writing the characters themselves. What about the sheer task of memorizing so many characters? Again, a comparison of English and Chinese is instructive. 2013-05-31
- Chinese Hard Reason 1: ridiculous writing system不合理的书写系统 The overall implications are obvious: the Chinese writing system is harder to learn, in absolute terms, than an alphabetic writing system. 2013-05-31
- Why Chinese Is So Hard There is truth in this linguistic yarn; Chinese does deserve its reputation for heartbreaking difficulty. 中文那令人心痛的难度是名副其实的。学习这门语言的人们，除了纯粹以此为乐的，都会对学习中极 2013-05-31
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