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[quote=LEMONCACTUS,231399]I'm learning Chinese too, or I should say Mandarin. I have mainly taught myself for the last 2 years. I think it is very difficult, having learnt French to fluency level a few years ago, I can say that learning Mandarin is a good deal more difficult than learning French.

This makes sense, as the languages are completely unrelated. I also find it frustrating that certain concepts that exist in English, do not exist in Chinese, therefore some distinctions that I would like to make in English aren't possible. On the other hand, there are some geat phrases and ideas in Chinese that don't have an exact English equivalent.

The Chinese characters are very difficult for me to learn to write, but very, very interesting. I am pretty good at written pinyin now, but pinyin is essentially useless as a written form, so I am trying to learn words straight from their characters rather than using pinyin.

Also, the tones are difficult for me, as English is not a tonal language, I have had (and still do have) a lot of problems with these.

Teaching and studying at the same time is not easy and more often than not, everyone wants me to speak English, whilst I am desperate to practice my Chinese!!

Good luck to everyone studying Chinese and, to use a lovely phrase (one of my favourites) ... 慢慢来.[/quote]

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