There is no doubt that written Chinese is difficult to learn – even for the Chinese! But the spoken language is a different kettle of fish.
In many ways, Mandarin Chinese is much easier to learn than European languages. Here are some features which make Mandarin easy:
- no subject/verb agreement
- no plurals
- no conjugations
- no tenses
- simple numbering system which is applied to dates and time expressions
- simple conditional sentences
- simple prepositions
Can you say that about the English language??