i can speak it fluently but i'm not good at reading and writing it if it's too complex
because of our multi-racial society english is the lingua franca here anyway, so chinese is not that important unless you're courting clients from china or something
It's hard for me to give an objective answer since I've been speaking it since I was very young but the one thing about it as compared to english or other euro languages is that chinese has a ton of characters to memorise so it can get pretty grindy
It's not quite as bad as it sounds, for example in English there are tones you can use for other semantic meaning, like the difference between a rising tone “help?” and a panicked “help!”. Also it's usually not impossible to figure out what word someone means by context clues.
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why dont you speak runes with eachother?
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I'm bad at it and you can see runes on the picture anyway
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Are you bad at chinese writing?
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i can speak it fluently but i'm not good at reading and writing it if it's too complex
because of our multi-racial society english is the lingua franca here anyway, so chinese is not that important unless you're courting clients from china or something
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Is chinese an extremely difficult language?
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It's an extremely simple language gatekept by weird pronounciation and a huge amount of hieroglyphs
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It's hard for me to give an objective answer since I've been speaking it since I was very young but the one thing about it as compared to english or other euro languages is that chinese has a ton of characters to memorise so it can get pretty grindy
https://www.languagesunlimited.com/why-is-learning-chinese-language-difficult-when-compared-to-learning-the-english-language
but i've seen non-native speakers that i know become probably more proficient at it than me, so it's a matter of practice too i suppose
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good god
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lol wait till you find out that cantonese has 6-9 tones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_phonology#Tones
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What's the difference between chinese, cantonese and mandarin?
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It's not quite as bad as it sounds, for example in English there are tones you can use for other semantic meaning, like the difference between a rising tone “help?” and a panicked “help!”. Also it's usually not impossible to figure out what word someone means by context clues.
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What about courting prostitutes?
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