what are the problems you have when you study Chinese?

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what are the problems you have when you study Chinese?
Sep 1, 2014 00:47
ERICAXU Points: Join Date: Aug 25, 2014 Status: offline	Im a chinese teacher in ZUFE University in Hangzhou, id like to know what are the difficulties learners will meet while they are studying chinese, ill try to explain it to you. For example: Learning to speak and read is easier? How do we learn to write Chinese characters? méi and bù You dont know when to use "没“ and "不"..... hàn yǔ and zhōng wén what are the differences between "汉语” and“ 中文”.. bǎ and bèi Can you explain "把" and"被".
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Sep 20, 2014 10:10	#1
TOUR1992 Points: Join Date: Sep 16, 2014 Status: Offline	Writing the chinese characters is very difficult. and the pronunciation as well because if you pronouce it wrongly, it could change the meaning.

Sep 24, 2014 01:04	#2
GUEST19312	haha, and sometimes it could be pretty embarrassing if you pronouce the characters wrongly, but that's for when you only say the characters, if you use a quiet complete sentence people will get it

Sep 24, 2014 09:23	#3
TOUR1992 Points: Join Date: Sep 16, 2014 Status: Offline	Oh sorry, i just don't wanna write the long sentence. Sorry for the anbiguity. My intended meaning is Writing chinese characters is very difficult and the Chinese pronunciation is difficult too because it could change the meaning, if you pronounce it wrongly and thanks for the comment Teerachai

Nov 13, 2014 18:16

GUEST38252

When you run across a word you don't know, you can't sound it out like English. It will also take like 10 minutes to look up the word in the dictionary if there are a lot of strokes (You won't be able to use pinyin since you don't know how to pronounce the word.) Also, words run together without separation like English. Something like: 我应该学汉语。
Which could be written: 我应该学汉语。But that is a simple sentence, but if you are in a longer sentence, you are not sure when one word ends and another word begins.
When you learn a word, it is not always used like the pinyin. Like 什么. You learn that the pinyin for it is shen me. But when you actually listen to people, they pronounce it she me (no n sound).
Well, writing is also pretty difficult. But I am not too concerned about writing since most of the time now I just punch in the pinyin and choose the word.
There are also a million ways to use 就 and 才.

I am sure there are more if I think about it.

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