Comments on: Learning Chinese is easier than you think

By: 16 myths about learning Chinese that are holding you back | Hacking Chinese

16 myths about learning Chinese that are holding you back | Hacking Chinese — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:24:45 +0000

[…] is not impossible to learn, but it’s not easy either. It has some features making some aspects of the language easier to learn (no gender, no tenses, no verb conjugations, to name a few things), but there are other things that […]

By: Lasst uns Chinesisch lernen! 一起学中文吧！ – MICHAEL KREUTZ

Lasst uns Chinesisch lernen! 一起学中文吧！ – MICHAEL KREUTZ — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 19:38:27 +0000

[…] kommt ohne Konjugation und Deklination aus und ist nicht schwer zu erlernen. Allein die Schrift ist komplex, die einzelnen Zeichen bestehen jedoch aus immer […]

By: Why is listening in Chinese so hard? | Hacking Chinese | Hacking Chinese

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:46:40 +0000

[…] a beginner, this seems great, because in comparison with other foreign languages, you might have learnt, Chinese looks so easy! Indeed, one of the most common reasons high-school students choose to learn Mandarin is because […]

By: Is Chinese difficult to learn? | Hacking Chinese

Is Chinese difficult to learn? | Hacking Chinese — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 13:26:08 +0000

[…] Claiming that Chinese is easier than people think is more defensible since a common opinion is that learning Chinese is impossible. This doesn’t need to involving trickery, because there are in fact several points on which Chinese is easier to learn than many other languages. I have in fact done so myself here: Learning Chinese is easier than you think […]

By: 一起学中文吧！ – MICHAEL KREUTZ

一起学中文吧！ – MICHAEL KREUTZ — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:10:48 +0000

[…] kommt ohne Konjugation und Deklination aus und ist nicht schwer zu erlernen. Allein die Schrift ist komplex, die einzelnen Zeichen bestehen jedoch aus immer […]

By: Peter Lund

Peter Lund — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 11:46:49 +0000

In reply to Olle Linge. Hey! What's wrong with "nine hundred half away from three times twenty"? I completely fail to see the problem!

By: Ms. Stephanie Lin » 第二季第二个星期

Ms. Stephanie Lin » 第二季第二个星期 — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 07:10:26 +0000

[…] 请阅读这篇文章。我们在这星期的最后一节华语课要讨论这篇文章。 […]

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 05:11:10 +0000

I live in China since 2008, i have a Chinese girlfriend living with me since 2011 but my Chinese is almost zero… I also tried 3 different mandarin school without any result.

I wonder how could people learn this language 🙁

By: Yeah

Yeah — Mon, 12 May 2014 14:11:26 +0000

In reply to Sara K.. This is 100% true. The language itself quite simple. It's time-consuming more than anything. If you have a realistic outlook on the amount of time you will have to put in when learning Chinese, you will have a better chance at not quitting!

By: Livonor

Livonor — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:29:06 +0000

Chinese is not easy, japanese is easy, Chinese is a breeze.

Comparisons are irrelevant, if all the other languages were super complex or simple Chinese would still be the same, it isn’t “simpler” than other languages, it just is. Gerderlessly(?) and other stuff are great but if it had five genders people would be learning it and becoming fluent anyway.

I don’t even see it in terms of “putting the time” the time will pass anyway, so why not to pass it learning Chinese? Right now there are people in the whole world doing that, some of them are playing Assasin’s Creed, other are painting, other are playing solitaire in the company’s PC because they don’t have any other game, and you, today you are going to learn a hanzi, a sound, a word. You’re not climbing a ultra badass mountain while the rest of the humanity watch in awe, you are no different from the others, you just picked up something different do to.