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People learning Chinese (Mandarin or whatever). Is it easy to learn speaking it and what about writing?
I want to know from you if you have been learning Chinese or it is a second language for you, how do/did you go about learning to write it.
I suppose that learning to speak it through books that give 'Romanization' or transliteration by using english alphabets to teach speaking is how it is done
e.g wǒ shì yuē hàn shǐ mì sī
Ok learning to speak may not be that tough but how do you go about learning writing (and thus reading)?
I am learning Japanese and have to learn Kanji characters there and I can see that its not a joke but Japanese has certain other writing as well which is similar to A B C of English which Chinese does not have.
In Chinese you have to go about learning a new complicated character for everything, how do you do it?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Get a tutor. And no it is never easy for anybody to learn a new language but it also depends on how well you pick up on things and how well you can remember. I speak french and can write some but when it comes to Spanish forget about it and i come from a Latino background.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
As far as i am concerned, speaking and writing are not easy to learn! Because Chinese is a difficult and complex language, there are so many Characters and phrases! More, there are not many principles to follow!
So i agree to Fasteddy's idea! You'd better find one teacher to help you!
I am learning Mandarin, i have one Chinese teacher.
Recommend she to you,
- Anonymous1 decade ago
learn it as any other foreign language...
listening-speaking, reading-writing...
the clumsy word "romanization" isn't proper...
officially it's called pinyin...
as for writing -- Japanese have 2 syllabic ABCs...
so they write sounds... just like western languages...
while Chinese people write by drawing pictures...
there isn't anything complicated about these pictures...
if you've learned the parts they consist of...
Source(s): . Chinese = Simple hanzi + pinyin Cantonese = Trad hanzi + Jyutping Taiwanese = Trad hanzi + pinyin