When you find English difficult to learn, why do foreigners find Chinese more difficult to learn?

Updated on educate 2024-07-19
22 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-13

    Many people find it difficult to learn English, but it is even more difficult for foreigners to learn Chinese. The main reasons are as follows.

    First, Chinese characters are very difficult to write.

    I believe that one thing you know is that it is relatively easy to learn English, because there are only 26 letters, and no matter what kind of words are made up of this letter, but Chinese characters are not like this, and each Chinese character is written differently.

    It is very difficult to memorize the writing of these Chinese characters, and it is very painful for foreigners who can only write letters. That's why when you find it difficult to learn English, foreigners find it even more difficult to learn Chinese.

    Second, Chinese lacks logic compared to English.

    One thing that anyone who speaks or learns English knows is that English speech or spoken English is very logical. In any case, you have to have a causal relationship.

    or affiliations.

    Any relationship must be clearly explained, but in Chinese it is not, basically speaking is more freewheeling.

    So, it is for this reason that many foreigners will feel that they can't understand what you mean when communicating with us Chinese, and I obviously learn why these words are different when they are combined, that is, because we usually lack logic when we speak, and foreigners who often learn logic are very painful when learning this.

    Third, the connotation of Chinese characters is very far-reaching.

    I believe everyone knows that one thing is English, the meaning of each word is basically only those few will not extend too much, but Chinese characters he may have a variety of meanings, and this meaning is often very far-reaching, including us Chinese sometimes do not understand what this word means, let alone foreigners.

    And we still have classical Chinese in China, which is even more difficult to understand, and sometimes we will say one or two sentences of classical Chinese in our daily life, which is simply like a book from heaven for foreigners.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-12

    The Chinese language is broad and profound. Foreigners feel that Chinese is difficult to learn because Chinese has pinyin, words, phrases, idioms, and proverbs, and each combination will have a different meaning, plus speaking English for a long time, which is very challenging for Chinese pronunciation.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    Because Chinese is one of the most difficult pronunciations in the world, and Chinese has different meanings, foreigners naturally find it difficult.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    According to research, Chinese is the most difficult language for people to learn, Chinese is ever-changing, all kinds of pinyin tones, radicals are very complex, and compared to Chinese, Yingyuan has a total of 26 letters, so foreigners will find Chinese difficult.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    The main reason is that everyone is in a different language environment, so they will feel that the language of other countries is particularly difficult.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    Because Chinese culture is so broad and profound, a word has multiple meanings, and there are many pronunciations, so it is particularly difficult to learn.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    Because Chinese characters are broad and profound, one character can express different meanings and be used in different occasions, which is a headache for foreigners.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    Still Chinese is easier to learn, English has grammar, has parts of speech, and the words are very variable.

    Chinese (Chinese) is the written language of China. It specifically refers to the spoken and written language of the Han nationality, i.e. Chinese and Chinese characters. In the Chinese character cultural circle and overseas Chinese community, Chinese is also known as Chinese and Hanwen.

    Chinese (Chinese) is divided into standard language and dialect, and its standard language is Mandarin Chinese, which is the common language of the Han nationality after standardization and the national common language of China. Modern Chinese dialects can generally be divided into: Mandarin dialect, Wu dialect, Hunan dialect, Hakka dialect, Min dialect, Cantonese dialect, Jiangxi dialect, etc.

    Chinese characters are the writing system of Chinese, and the earliest existing recognizable Chinese characters are the oracle bone script of Yin Shang and the later Jin script, which evolved into 籀文 in the Western Zhou Dynasty, developed the small seal and Qin subordinate in the Qin Dynasty, and became popular in the Han and Wei dynasties, and in the late Han dynasty, the subordinate book became the correct letter, and the Kaishu prevailed in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and is still in use today. Modern Chinese characters refer to the regular block characters after Kai, including Chinese Traditional and Chinese Simplified.

    On 1 January 2001, China came into force the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Standard Spoken and Written State Language, which established the legal status of Putonghua and standardized Chinese characters as the common spoken and written language of China. More than 1.7 billion people use Chinese (Chinese characters), covering the whole territory of China (mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan) and East Asia, Southeast Asia and other Chinese character cultural circles.

  9. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    English is much more difficult than Chinese. The world generally thinks that Chinese is more difficult than English, because English and French are the same as those European languages, and European languages cover most of the world. Many people find Chinese more difficult to learn.

    If you learn more English, you won't be able to speak English than Chinese. English alone has endless words and word variations, cumbersome sentence structures, and endless phrases, and you won't be able to memorize them for the rest of your life. (For example, there are countless nouns in the medical profession, and it is estimated that no one has memorized them, and they all replace them with a few irrelevant capital letters, and in the end they don't know what they mean, and it is easy to string.)

    Put it in Chinese is to find a few related words and spell it, read it a few times and memorize it) This is one of the reasons why many people in foreign countries are generally illiterate, except for some people with high IQs. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese are a language family, and there are many fewer illiterate people than native speakers of English.

    Moreover, almost all Chinese have English from elementary school, and many Westerners who do not learn Chinese until they are in their teens and twenties are not at the same starting line. They have long missed the best age to learn the language, and it is difficult to speak Chinese.

    Maybe your so-called English is easy to learn is to compare level 4 English with level 10 Chinese.

  10. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    Personally, I think that it is still difficult to learn Chinese, after all, Chinese culture is broad and profound, and the cultural heritage of English only knows a few letters and the smell of Chinese involves many aspects of society and culture. He said that if he wants to learn English well, he has energy, but if he wants to learn Chinese well, he is endless.

  11. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    Chinese is difficult to learn, we learn English is still relatively simple, and foreigners learn Chinese is very difficult, we have a lot of Chinese, so Chinese is not easy to learn.

  12. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    Personally, I think that the difficulty of English recognition application is greater than Chinese, Chinese except for traditional rare characters, there are about 3500 commonly used words, you can read as long as you know, and many are a combination of ab, ac, ad, you can understand the name very well, for example, the combination of breakfast, lunch, dinner only needs 2 words are associated with a meal word.

    There are only 26 letters in English, and the commonly used ones are 3000-5000, but they are very long and difficult to remember in order, such as breakfast (breakfast), lunch (lunch), dinner (dinner) The 3 words are unrelated, and the alphabetical order cannot be wrong!

    The wrong sorting of Chinese does not even affect reading.

    For example, the study shows that the order of Chinese characters is not fixed, and it can be read and read, for example, when you read this sentence, you will find that the characters here are all messed up.

  13. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    It depends on the conditions. It is more difficult for foreigners to learn Chinese than Chinese to learn English. Chinese is a difficult language for foreigners.

    According to statistics, students in the United States generally think that learning Chinese is laborious. In fact, it is much easier for Chinese to learn English than for foreigners to learn Chinese.

  14. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    Chinese is broad and profound, English is relatively thin, and for non-native speakers, Chinese will be more difficult to learn than English.

  15. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    To be exact, Chinese is more difficult to learn. But because you are in a Chinese speaking environment, it feels like Chinese is simpler.

  16. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    For Chinese, English is still relatively difficult to learn, but for foreigners, Chinese is far greater than English, and the implicit meaning of this Chinese is still very much.

  17. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    Many people refer to foreign countries, but also many Chinese.

    I feel that English is difficult to learn in my heart

    1.Vocabulary, English 12,000 vocabulary can barely communicate with the natives, Chinese about 2,000 vocabulary is about the same (unless the ancients are good at things such as Tang poetry and Song Ci, but in life, we rarely use it).

    2.A foreigner who learns Chinese is hard to say after 4 years of learning, and we can learn most of the talents for decades 4 6 level vocabulary, far from the level of communication with foreigners.

    One interesting point has to do with the mother tongue. Most countries in the world are native English speakers, so they speak Chinese as hard to learn as any other language.

    The question comes back, why do native Mandarin Chinese also find Chinese difficult to learn? Is it being led astray, and everyone is the same?

    You can evaluate it objectively. Don't assume you're Chinese or foreigner.

  18. Anonymous users2024-01-27

    In fact, I have always had a question, is it more difficult for Chinese to learn English, or is it more difficult for foreigners to learn Chinese? I believe that many people will think that it is more difficult for foreigners to learn Chinese, because the pronunciation of Chinese has four tones, and there are more than n Chinese characters, I believe that many Chinese people still can't recognize many Chinese characters, let alone foreigners.

    Although many foreigners think that it is very difficult to learn Chinese, there are still tens of millions of foreigners learning Chinese. It is the charm of traditional Chinese culture and the charm of Chinese characters, and foreigners who study Chinese characters seriously will definitely find that many Chinese characters are of great help to the imagination outside the world.

    In the process of learning Chinese, there are many Chinese characters that can open up the imagination of foreigners, such as turtle, worm, melon, and father, which can give full play to the imagination of foreigners. In the process of learning Chinese characters, foreigners can indeed better help them learn Chinese characters, memorize Chinese characters, and improve their interest in learning Chinese.

    Foreigners find it difficult to learn Chinese, first of all, foreigners learn Chinese there are no good textbooks. Because the current curriculum for foreigners to learn Chinese is not uniform, and there are still many types of courses for foreigners to learn Chinese, including Chinese courses for daily life, Chinese courses for business and Chinese courses for examinations, so foreigners originally want to learn Chinese for daily life but are learning business Chinese, which increases the difficulty of learning Chinese for foreigners and causes foreigners to lose confidence in learning Chinese.

    The second is the problem of foreigners themselves. Foreigners have been saying that Chinese is difficult, creating psychological obstacles for themselves, and whenever foreigners encounter problems in Chinese learning, they will always choose to give up, and there are good reasons, most foreigners feel that Chinese is difficult to learn as an excuse, so many foreigners are unwilling to learn Chinese, and most foreign countries have not set Chinese learning as a compulsory course, and there is no pressure for Chinese people to learn English and go on to higher education.

    So, who is more difficult to learn, "Chinese" or "English"? Everyone will have an answer to this question, what do you think?

  19. Anonymous users2024-01-26

    Yes, because of the broad spirit of Chinese Chinese dialect, first of all, different words have different meanings in different environments, for example, convenience can refer to being free, or it can refer to going to the toilet, and different regions have accents, local dialects, in addition, Chinese characters are also very difficult, as a Chinese Chinese characters are not all known, and they are not all written.

  20. Anonymous users2024-01-25

    Chinese has caused a lot of trouble for many foreign learners in terms of pronunciation, and the pronunciation of letters such as z, c, s, zh, ch, and sh is very difficult to learn because they do not exist in their language system.

    In addition, Chinese is spoken and written differently (like English and Spanish, which are how to pronounce and write), but Chinese pronunciation is one system, and Chinese characters are another system, and it is not difficult for foreigners who are used to the alphabet to draw a picture.

    But there is nothing difficult in the world, only afraid of those who have a heart. There are also many people who have overcome these difficulties and learned very well.

  21. Anonymous users2024-01-24

    Just as hard.

    Foreigners learning Chinese is the same as Chinese learning English, this language is a second foreign language for him, and they are both unfamiliar.

    English and Chinese have completely different pronunciation and formation rules, so there is almost no interoperability between the two languages. So, it's not easy for each other to learn.

    English vocabulary is large, this is a rare place for Chinese to learn English. However, the vocabulary of Chinese is not as large as that of English, but it has multiple meanings at one time, and the meanings are too different in different places. So, it's still difficult.

    According to my observations, Chinese people who learn English find it difficult. Foreigners who learn Chinese also find Chinese difficult. Therefore, both are difficult and there is no comparison.

  22. Anonymous users2024-01-23

    Chinese is difficult to learn, Chinese feel that learning English.

    Grammar, reading, composition, etc., are difficult to do and difficult to understand. But I don't know that in fact, the difficulty coefficient of Chinese is much higher than that of English, and it is much more difficult for foreigners to learn Chinese than we learn English.

    This is why Chinese can learn English well and communicate with foreigners when they go to live abroad for a year, while foreigners can only learn basic communication with people when they come to China to live for a year.

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