Difficulties in learning Chinese

Nowadays, Chinese is becoming more and more widespread. Some foreigners come to China and they have realized the importance of Chinese and the culture exchanging. But many foreigners think that Chinese is much more difficult to learn than western languages, and they can’t speak Chinese fluently.

Chinese is the crystallization of the splendid culture developed continuously for over 5,000 years. Many treasures remain to be explored. Chinese is the oldest language in the world, and it is one of the most beautiful and the most special language. The charm of Chinese language is very big. Chinese is profound and it’s difficult to master it for foreigners. If you want to learn Chinese language well, you will face some challenges.

First of all, Chinese character strokes are highly boring and difficult to learn well, especially for foreigners. Chinese character strokes as the basic units are multi-strokes, and difficult to remember, no one can determine the number of Chinese character strokes to formed characters. What’s more, Chinese character strokes composed Chinese are diverse, no one can identify the means which a combination of strokes of Chinese characters easily.

The second side is the special tone. Pronunciation of Chinese characters is changeable and diverse. So, it’s one of the most common

difficult points about learning Chinese. As we all know, Chinese characters have single vowel, double vowels, and consonants more. In addition, Chinese characters have the same pronunciation between vowels and consonants there, and combination mean is linked vowels with consonants, but this is not a rule some combination of the pronunciation does not exist. In addition, Chinese pronunciation as a whole, there is no law strictly. To talk about Chinese standard is impossible. Because it’s difficult to statistics how many the numbers of pronunciations a word has.

The last side is Chinese characters meaning inconstant. The Chinese characters don’t have the common sense. Because the cultural differences among different areas, many Chinese characters have a variety of different meanings. And different composition of Chinese characters and has a very rich vocabulary, but in this voluminous vocabulary phrases have different meaning. You almost hard to find two words mean exactly the same. Because even if two words meaning looks very similar, there are still many difference among them, such as the use of context and historical allusions. On the other hand, from a simple character may obtain a wealth of information about its hidden meaning, evolution history and related phrases.

In conclusion, Chinese language is difficult in characters strokes, pronunciation and meanings. Because Chinese language and western

languages are different in the nature, it is not easy to grasp no matter which side you choice. From what has been discussed above, we can make sure that the Chinese is difficult for foreigners to learn from any angle. So Chinese is much more difficult to learn than western languages for foreigners.