Chinese is difficult to learn, but I feel that Chinese is very easy to learn?

Foreigners who learn Chinese have certain independent learning ability, which will be of great help to their Chinese learning.

The course for foreigners to learn Chinese is the same as for Chinese to learn English, and the course for foreigners to learn Chinese should start from pinyin:

Initials. The initials are mainly flat tongue sounds, aspirated sounds, and unaspirated sounds; The finals are mainly prenasal and posterior nasals, as well as individual vowels and compound vowels. For foreign students, learning Chinese initials is very difficult, because there are no initials in the Chinese consonant system.

Research and analysis conducted by foreigners whose native English speaks are conducted. For foreigners whose native English is the native speaker, the writing form of English and Hanyu Pinyin is similar, but the pronunciation is not the same, which brings great difficulty to foreigners to learn Chinese. Due to the spelling of Hanyu Pinyin, it is characterized by many clear consonants.

Voiced consonants are less voiced in English and there is no opposition of aspirated and unaspirated, but there is the opposition of clear voiced sounds, and clean and voiced sounds constitute different phonemes in English. In Chinese, b, d, and g are used to represent unaspirated clear plosives, which are the same as the voiced plosive writing in English, so most foreigners tend to pronounce b d and g as voiced sounds.

Tone. There are four tones in Chinese: Yin Ping, Yang Ping, Shang Sheng, and Go Sheng.

Most foreigners generally believe that tones are the most difficult to learn and remember, and it is easy to misunderstand when communicating with others. Therefore, in the stage of learning Chinese pronunciation, this is what they are most afraid of and difficult, and they often adopt an attitude of avoidance.

English is a phonetic script and a toneless language. Its word stress has a more obvious role in pitch and less in length, but the tone that falls on the end of the sentence has a very important role in distinguishing meaning. Therefore, it is difficult for these foreigners to find similarities between their mother tongue and their target language when learning Chinese tones, and their tone errors are scattered.

For example, foreigners whose mother tongue is English have a higher accuracy in pronouncing the first and fourth tones, and the error in pronouncing the third tone is the highest, followed by the second tone.

Accurately mastering the initials and tones is the most important part of learning Chinese for foreigners, because correct pronunciation is the beginning of learning Chinese. It is best to be taught systematically by a senior teacher of Chinese as a foreign language, which will achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Foreigners should not ignore the importance of independent learning while learning Chinese Chinese courses, because of the long history and culture of China, foreigners should also have a proper understanding of Chinese history and culture when learning Chinese courses.

A language is a mode of thinking, because the expressions, vocabulary, and sentence patterns of each language are imprinted and handed down by the traditional cultural heritage of various genres.

And these circulating languages, not can be expressed casually, not according to the semantics written in the dictionary, and rhetorical devices and grammar, etc., you can write fluent words, if only in line with the meaning and grammar of the words, then it is easy to express strangely, very obscure, because language is a crystallization of thousands of years of thinking, so to study a language, learn a language, first learn its cultural background thinking logic.

Just like if you know German and Marxist philosophy, you may not understand it, because it belongs to the professional language of philosophy, and you need to understand its thinking logic before you can understand its application.

The Chinese language is mainly the mainstream of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, plus Tang and Song poems, Yuan songs, Ming and Qing dynasties, and historical records, Zuo Chuan, Warring States Policy, Sun Tzu's Art of War, Guiguzi, etc., as well as traditional Chinese medicine, qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, etc., such as some ancient cultures.

In modern times, you can look for some literary writings by Lu Xun and Zhu Ziqing, philosophical writings by Feng Youlan, Nan Huaijin, and Ren Jiyu, as well as some personal works in modern social sciences to read and feel the modern thinking of the Chinese language.

I feel that Chinese is easy to learn, probably because I understand the Chinese context.

British Americans also think that English is easy to learn, Japanese people also think Japanese is very simple, Germans also think German is simple, and Russians also think Russian is easy to learn, but if you go to learn English, Japanese, German, Russian, do you think it is easy?

Some people are good at sports, some people are good at math, some people are good at English, some people are tall, some people are easy to get fat, and some people think Chinese is simple, all of which belong to people's "personality".

English is easy to learn.

English is easy to learn, if you live abroad for a period of time, English is immediately better than Chinese, spoken and everything is very good. Chinese is broad and profound, many foreigners can read, write and listen to Chinese, but often do not understand idioms, those ancient texts are more difficult, Chinese strokes are too difficult to write.

I think the hardest part of Chinese is that there are too many characters, and you have to memorize their pronunciation and meaning. There are only 26 letters in English, and even if you haven't memorized a word, you can probably guess how to spell it by pronouncing it, and you can pronounce the correct pronunciation of a word by the pronunciation that the letter usually represents. But if you learn any of them well, they're all great.

Difference Between English and Chinese:

Chinese is the most spoken language in China and the most spoken language in the world as a first language. In addition to the Han nationality in China, the Hui and Manchu ethnic groups also basically use or switch to Chinese, and other ethnic groups have their own languages, and many ethnic groups have switched to or used Chinese to varying degrees.

Chinese is analytical, and generally has 2 to 13 tones. The Chinese writing system Chinese characters are a kind of phonetic script, which has both ideographic and phonetic functions. The Chinese language consists of two parts, the spoken language and the written language, the ancient written Chinese is called classical Chinese, and the modern written Chinese is called the vernacular, which is based on the modern standard Chinese.

The Chinese language has a long history and is the largest number of speakers, with at least 1.5 billion people speaking Chinese in the world, accounting for 20% of the world's total population. Chinese is the official language of China, one of the four official languages of Singapore and one of the six working languages of the United Nations. The Chinese language is mainly spoken in China, as well as in the Chinese community in Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Myanmar, Thailand, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries.

The difference between English and Chinese is that one is a letter, the other is a hieroglyph, English can only be phonetic but not ideographic, Chinese in many cases, some things even if you have never been in contact, can also look at the meaning of the text, and Chinese words and sentences have short syllables and vivid images. English grammar is troublesome and verbose, word spelling has many times with the phonetic transcription donkey lips do not match the horse's mouth, Chinese memorize words difficult, foreigners also have headaches, in English-speaking countries there are many people can not remember words, resulting in dyslexia, it is said that the famous, bullish General Patton is also deeply troubled by dyslexia, in English-speaking countries to read professional articles across industries is also like a book for them. Chinese can memorize 3,000 Chinese characters in any combination, and even 10,000 words of English will be stretched thin when living abroad.

The biggest problem with Chinese is the four tones, as well as the child-like sound and tongue-curling sound, which make foreigners unable to survive and die.

In my personal student life, I basically did not score 80% of the paper in English, but it was difficult to exceed 70% in Chinese

Many friends have asked me this question. According to my mood at the time, sometimes I was "difficult" and sometimes "not difficult". Actually, I think the difficulty of learning a foreign language depends mainly on how much the learner loves the language.

If the goal of learning a foreign language is simply to satisfy the needs of his job or simply out of desperation, the learner is likely to be in a passive state of learning and may become resentful. After a period of study, it becomes more and more difficult to learn if the learner is not yet interested in the foreign language. I was in a very active state when I first started learning Chinese.

Although learning Chinese is certainly not as fast as learning Western languages, because I regard learning Chinese as my hobby, I don't think about whether Chinese is difficult to learn.

From a more objective point of view, the standard pronunciation of Chinese is really difficult for a Westerner to grasp (French has no tones......).The learning process of kanji is also very long. In a language that uses the Latin alphabet, if you spend a few days carefully studying its phonetic transcription, even if you write incomplete words, others will be able to judge your meaning from the pronunciation patterns of the letters. Chinese is different, even if you can speak a word, if you haven't learned how to write it, then you can't write it down with a pen.

In the same way, even if you know the meaning of a word, you may not be able to pronounce it.

I remember reading a foreigner on the Internet commenting on Chinese learning: "For Westerners, the time spent mastering Chinese is completely enough to learn three European languages." For a Frenchman, even if you have never been exposed to the Italian language, you can still know the content of an article in an Italian economic newspaper.

But after learning Chinese for three years, you may not be able to understand the title of the same article! ”

I think the complexity of Chinese is the charm of this language.

Reason 1: The way of writing is simply fantastic.

It is also an absolute fact that Chinese is difficult to learn because there are so many Chinese characters to learn.

Also, the way Chinese characters are spelled is not very regular, which means that if you don't get any obvious semantic hints from the way a Chinese character is combined, or if it doesn't contain any useful radicals, you will forget how a Chinese character is written.

Reason 2: Chinese cannot be expressed by the arrangement of letters in the popular sense.

English is easy to learn because the skills required to master how to write English are 26 letters, and you only need to write horizontally, from left to right, from one side of the page to the other.

In contrast, although Chinese also has those common radicals that make up Chinese characters, there is no corresponding alphabet.

It can be said that the radicals that make up the kanji are arranged in two directions, rather than only one direction like letters, and it looks neat.

Reason 3: Even looking up Chinese characters in the dictionary is very complicated.

One of the most inexplicable difficulties in learning Chinese is that even learning how to look up a dictionary can take an entire semester of study time in a secretarial school.

Chinese must be the most proficient dictionary language on the planet, because there are so many different kinds of dictionaries.

Reason 4: There is also ancient Chinese (classical Chinese) in Chinese

Old Chinese does contain all kinds of court secrets accumulated over thousands of years, and the words are concise and to the point, almost like some kind of cipher, suitable only for those who are born with intellectual elites, who know everything about literature by heart.

Reason 5: There are too many (Romanesque) phonics schemes and they are all exhausting.

It may sound harsh, but there are indeed too many pinyin schemes in Chinese, and most of them are not advocated by the writing committee, or proposed by linguists, or even worse, by the writing committee composed of those linguists.

Reason 6: The Chinese intonation is strange.

In the process of learning Chinese, it is precisely this that the most common complaint to hear, and it is also the most feared thing by Westerners about Chinese, which is simply known to women and children.

If you don't speak Chinese since you were a child, then you have to wait to memorize those vowel consonants all the time.

Reason 7: There are cultural differences.

Despite the extensive contacts between China and the West over the past few decades, the vast amount of knowledge and ideas of the Chinese is not available to Westerners.

Even if Westerners try to merge with the Chinese one day, the obstacle is often not just language, the biggest obstacle is the huge cultural difference.

There is no country language that is more difficult to learn than Chinese, Chinese is the most difficult in the world, the reason why you can speak is because you are Chinese, Chinese is the mother tongue, if you were born in the UK, then English is very simple for you. Think about it with your brain to know how difficult Chinese is, first of all, there are tens of thousands of Chinese characters, each word has different meanings in different contexts, the grammar is complex and cumbersome, and there are polyphonic words and so on, so it is very rare, relatively speaking, English, Korean and Japanese are not as difficult to learn as Chinese. The most infuriating thing is the local dialect, the same Chinese have different dialects in different places, even if the Chinese fully understand it takes several days, not to mention foreigners who do not understand Chinese at all.

That's because our mother tongue is Chinese, so it's very easy for you to learn, because the people around you are using this language, and you've been exposed to it since you were a child, but it's very difficult for many foreigners.

Language learning is a gradual process, and the same is true for Chinese. First the hard and then the easy, and then the harder and then the easier ......

At first, I didn't know anything, I thought it was difficult, but after learning it, I felt that it was easy, and after I learned more deeply, I knew that the qi was only scratching the surface, and I felt that it was difficult again, and after understanding, I might feel that it was not so difficult, and maybe I found the "New World", and I felt that it was even more difficult......Simplicity is one of them.