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Is it really hard to learn Chinese as a foreign language?Is it true Chinese is difficult language to learn as a foreign language?

Strictly speaking, it’s not so.  Comparatively grammar in Chinese is much simpler than that of the European languages.  At times, there is a complaint from English speakers that languages like Spanish have a perplexed grammar (masculine and feminine genders, verb conjugations, etc),, but the Chinese language has virtually no syllable structure or grammatical paradigms either to by heart.  Each word has a fixed and single form: verbs do not take prefixes or suffixes showing the tense or the person, number, or gender of the subject.   Nouns do not take prefixes or suffixes showing their number or their case.  I do not mean that Chinese has no grammar; What I want to say is Chinese grammar is primarily concerned with arrangement of words to form meaningful sentences as they inflectional morphology.  Plus each Chinese character pronounced in one syllable, that’s why when watching Chinese movies, you find that a few words can be translated into a syllable mapping in the English subtitle. (more…)