Learning Chinese is not so difficult

Chinese is said to be one of the most difficult languages in the world. Is it true? Let us see the view of Mr.Tylor, a student of www.raychinese.com, whose first language is not Chinese.

I used to think that the Chinese character was difficult to learn, which is because the single character is difficult to memorize. Character is the basis of vocabulary, and most of Chinese vocabulary is two-word noun or compound word. Due to many reasons, two-word noun and compound word are easy to learn.

For example: 马车、火车、汽车、自行车、公交车 are all can be split into single character, and each character has its definite function in the word. But in English, this rule can be different, these words can be translated into cart、train、car、bicycle、bus, which are all separated words in spelling and have no connections from each other. There is compound word in English too, such as " push（推）＋ cart（马车）＝ pushcart（手推车）", but it is few.

The word马车(cart) is easy to memorize and write, and the pronunciation is same as the that when it is separated into single one, except that the second character 车 turn to be neutral tone. I refer to the English, because the pronunciation rule is so different in English. When reading an English word, you should know where the stress is.

When you are learning Chinese, the new word is combined with those characters we've learned, so it's a review process. We can guess the meanings of some words even without the help of dictionary. Sometimes, I can find a word, which is difficult in English, and easy to understand in Chinese, such as unanimous vote, which equal to全票 in Chinese. The two common characters全 and 票 can replace the uncommon English word "unanimous vote".

Learning two-word noun has many advantages. But sometimes I mix some words up, for example, I say修装, in fact it's装修. But this matter happens rarely.

After six-month study at Rayzone Language and Culture Training School in Wuhan, as well as one-year self-study with Rayzone Xueban Chinese Learning Software after his return to homeland, Mr. Tylor has achieved a lot, not only Chinese language, but also Chinese friend.