In some foreigners' eyes, learning Chinese has
become a headache of most of their things. It seems
that Chinese tone and characters are the difficult
problems. Well, what in the world makes Chinese so
difficult to learn?
First of all, the way of writing is miraculous.
The reason why Chinese character is so difficult to
learn is that there are too many chrarcters for us to
learn and it is a absolute fact.
Also, the way of spelling Chinese characters is
irregular.That is to say,if we cannot get any obvious
semantic mentoin from the combinations of the
Chinese characters, or there is no useful component
in it ,we will thoroughly forget how to write the
character.
Second, we can't express the meaning according to
the alphabetical order in the popular sense.
The reason why English is very easy to learn is that if
we can know the 26 letters well, we will master the
way of writing English,and we can write it from left to
right along the horizontal direction and from one side
of the paper to another.
In comparison,though there are also some common
components in the combination of the characters ,
we cannot find the corresponding letters.
We can say that the compositon of the Chinese
characters PianBang radical is arranged in two
directions, different from the ranking order of the
letters,which looks very tidy.
Third, it is very complex to look up the characters in
a dictionary.
One of the most confusing difficulties in learning
Chinese is that it will cost the entire semester learing
time in a Secretary School to learn how to look up
something in a dictionary.
Chinese must be the language that is one of the
most skilled in using the dictionary.Because the
varieties of dictionaries are in a great number.
Fourth, there is also the ancient Chinese in the
modern Chinese.
The ancient Chinese indeed contains the variety of
keyhole report in the palace which has been
accumulated over millennia. The words it used were
very concise and succinct and they were like the
code. These words were appropriate for those who
were the natural knowledge elite. Those people knew
very clearly about all the things of literature.
Fifth, (Romanesque) schemes of Pinyin are too
many and they are exhausting.
Maybe it hears a bit harsh, but schemes of Chinese
spelling are indeed so many.Moreover, most of these
spelling schemes are either advocated by the Text
Committee or by linguists. What's more, they are
advocated by the Text Committee which is made up
of those linguists.
Sixth, the tone of Chinese is rare and odd.
In the process of learning Chinese language, we
often hear many people complaining about the tone.
It is also the most frightening part of learning
Chinese for the foreigners in the West. The difficulty
of learning Chinese tone is known all over the world.
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