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Thread: Two most difficult languages to learn
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[quote=CHYNAGYRL,36822]Sorry, I don't know anything about Arabic. However, I did find that Mandarin is a very difficult language to learn. My teacher said that you do not need to be intelligent to learn a new language, but you need to memorize and repeat new words many times to learn. Chinese kids typically take three years longer than English-speaking children to learn their language, but as a result, they are smarter than Western kids because Mandarin requires both hemispheres of the brain to process. Reading Chinese requires a lot more sophisticated visual recognition of characters than in reading English. Understanding Mandarin requires the right brain (music center) to process the tones that sound like music, and the left brain to understand the syntactical patterns. When people listen to English language, only the left brain is active (shown by CAT scans). Also, the script languages on the Euro-Asian continent evolved from two main sources. It is possible to trace almost every European, Indian, and African language back to Egyptian hieroglyphics / Phoenician, but Chinese language had a different evolution. You can trace English, Greek, Sanskrit, even Korean are all derivative somehow from Phoenician -- but Mandarin is different from those. That's one thing that makes it so special :-)[/quote]
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