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Why Learning Chinese is Hard

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Dariya Lopukhina
Why Learning Chinese is Hard

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

The text above is a summary, you can read the full article here: Why Learning Chinese for English Speakers is Insanely Hard.

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