Introduction:
Many people will think that Chinese is the most difficult language in the world. Of course, there is not so much difficult language in the world. You need to consider many factors and it all depends on what your mother tongue is and what other languages you have already learned.
Take a look at the below points to make you easier to learn Chinese
Things that make Chinese learning easier
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Transform characters to alphabetical form
If you see the Chinese characters at first you will not be able to read anything at first, which scares many people off, and is precisely the reason why Chinese has the fear of being an “impossible” language to learn. For westerners, a completely alphabetical language unknown would seem much more familiar at first.
To convert these Chinese characters first into an alphabetical form for much easier to read. since there are only about 400 different characters in the Chinese languages, compared to thousands in Western languages pinyin is fully phonetic and can be learned very quickly.
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Tones
The Chinese language has a few different syllables and tones are being used. There are 4 different tones which allow pronouncing the syllables in different ways by this different meanings can be conveyed.
Learn to hear and pronounce these tones correctly is a challenge for anybody. The context of the conversation, grammatical position in the sentence, the fact that many Chinese words are duo-syllabic, reducing the potential confusion can deduct meaning without tones.
Always beware that even though you don´t need to know characters to be able to pronounce Chinese, this does not mean that characters are a useless invention by the Chinese.
the Chinese have characters is basically because they have a very large amount of “homonyms”, which are words with the same pronunciation but different meanings. Introducing a character script is necessary to distinguish them because an alphabetical system is simply too limited to do that, the Chinese language is completely devoid of all those complications of Western languages.
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Chinese grammar is simple
In this language conjugations, tenses, articles, plurals, gender, cases, declinations of adjectives by number or gender, fixed pattern of subject-verb – the object is absent
Instead of tenses, it uses particles to express if an action takes place in the past, present, or future, the verb form never changes in the function of tense
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Chinese vocabulary
In the Chinese language, vocabulary is built up in a very logical way. After knowing some basic words, your learning process will speed up in no time. As you progress more, you will notice that many new words you learn are simply creative combinations of other basic words you have learned before.
The Chinese language is constructed by new words by combining very basic meanings of existing characters, which are usually more than 2000 years old themselves, as we will discuss in the next section. Since the alphabet allows many more letter combinations than is possible in Chinese, words often stand much more by themselves.
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Chinese characters are more phonetic
Chinese characters may seem to have a huge collection of all kinds of random scribbles that bear no resemblance to any object and don´t have any phonetic elements in them.