Is Asian language the toughest language to learn?
By mermaidivy
@mermaidivy (15394)
United States
March 25, 2009 8:23am CST
I know Chinese and some Japanese. I remember one time, my friend told me about what he thinks about Chinese, he described Chinese characters in a very funny way, he said there was a box on top of the house, something like that. He said Asians languages are very difficult, it is spelling like English charaters.
Chinese words are developed and changed from pictures, it is called hieroglyphic. There are some certain words are really like the picture that you can really tell it is developed from a picture.
Even soometimes native Chinese thinks it is difficult, we cannot tell how to pronounce iot by looking at the word like you can figure out how to pronounce by the spelling in English. I think learning pronounciations would be slightly easier than learning writing the characters.
Are you guys interested in Chinese culture and the language? Can you speak some?
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4 responses
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
25 Mar 09
i have never tried to learn another language, thet requirs it in out high schools now but they didn't back in the olden days when i went to school. lol
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
26 Mar 09
i sure was. don't need any foreign languages in tennseess. lol. i guess if we did it would be spanish .
@mermaidivy (15394)
• United States
26 Mar 09
Weren't you lucky not have to learn it! hehe
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@wxc6822 (185)
• China
25 Mar 09
I am a Chinese,I think the Chinese language is difficult for foreigners,there are too many differences between Chinese and English language.Your friend id right,hieroglyphic is the earliest language in China.It's a very interesting thing to learn Chinese language.
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@ajithlal (14716)
• India
26 Mar 09
I don't think Asian languages are that tough to learn. I am from India and I know Malayalam, Hindi, and Tamil languages. I think it takes time to learn languages. Some languages are very easy to learn. Most of the Indian languages are connected to each other and do have same sounds and has difference only in writing. I think mostly Southindian languages are connected to each other. I don't know Chinese or Japanese, but I will look to learn or try to see how it looks in writing.
@mermaidivy (15394)
• United States
26 Mar 09
Chinese writing is very interesting, I like to just take out the stationery and ink and do some writings. Thanks for sharing! :-)
@pavan4568 (122)
• India
25 Mar 09
I think chinese speak different dialects in different areas and there are around 1000 chinese dialects but there is one dialect which is common and every one in china will share which is Mandarin. So you need to get past the tones and listening to language and apart from that, you need to have working knowledge of 3000 characters so looking into these facts, i think chinese is one of the hardest.
