Chinese is considered difficult to learn mainly for the following reasons:
Difficulty in learning Chinese characters: Chinese characters are ideograms, and each word has a profound meaning. Unlike English and other phonography, reading and writing are integrated. You can read when you can write and write when you can read. Chinese characters are separated from Chinese, and thousands of individual words must be mastered, while English is not. This is the biggest problem in phonography, such as English. Due to the progress of the times, the expansion of vocabulary is very scary. In Shakespeare’s time, he was a great writer with a vocabulary of 4,000. Up to now, English has expanded to more than 5 million, and it is still increasing rapidly every year. This is the advantage of Chinese characters. A primary school student knows airplanes and trains even if he has never seen them at all, because these two words will give him a basic concept, but he can’t speak English at all. For example, the latest material graphene, even a primary school student can roughly know that it is the same substance as graphite, and it is difficult for English to show this correlation.
Difficulty in mastering intonation: The most difficult part for foreigners to master Chinese is intonation. Including China, like a southerner, zizhizchici doesn’t know anything, nl doesn’t know anything, that is, there is no nasal sound and so on.
The influence of cultural differences: the core difficulty lies in cultural differences, which is actually the fundamental reason why all languages are difficult to master.
The influence of dialect: It will take several days for Chinese to fully understand it, not to mention foreigners who don’t know Chinese at all.
To sum up, the difficulties in learning Chinese are mainly reflected in the study of Chinese characters, the mastery of intonation, the influence of cultural differences and the existence of dialects.