Can anyone share there experience on what learning chinese is like?
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Anonymous2006-05-26 6:54
No. Learn Korean. Korean superior language-nida.
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Anonymous2006-05-26 6:59
You get to learn a gazillion of characters who're all pronounced "ching" or "chong" with five dozen different intonations (and if you're learning Red China Chinese, the characters all look the same as well). The grammar is nonexistent. Just add character to character.
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Anonymous2006-05-26 8:30
Let's conjugate in mandarin!
Wo bu hui.
Ni bu hui.
Ta bu hui.
And since you don't know what tones to use, you may be saying something vulgar if you don't know which to use.
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Anonymous2006-05-26 14:02
Mandarin Chinese.
Verbs don't conjugate, which isn't as good as you'd think.
The number of homophones is startling, and learning how to properly indent your tones is way, way hard if you're a native English speaker.
Is it impossible? No.
Is it a stupid language? No, it has worked for the Chinese for thousands of years.
Is it a hard language to learn? Most certainly.
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Anonymous2006-05-27 12:53
chinese is fucking hard to learn. So much shit you have to memorize.
I agree with the person above. Learn Korean. Cause they fucking own everyone.
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Anonymous2006-05-29 16:15
i was thinking of maybe starting to learn chinese alongside japanese, but the structure seemed so clueless i decided to leave it.