

Mandarin Chinese is often ranked as one of the hardest languages to learn. Some of the difficulties people face when learning Chinese:
- Chinese has no alphabet
- Every word is a distinct sequence of often complicated characters that needs to be memorized
- There are no spaces separating individual words
- Tones change the meaning of Chinese syllables
- Chinese tones change depending on the context
- Homonyms and homographs
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