Russian Vs Mandarin Chinese difficulty?

I'm taking both Mandarin and Chinese in school right now~

Personally I feel Russian is much harder, but that's just my opinion, ultimately it would depend on the individual and what your strengths and weaknesses are when it comes to learning a foreign language.

Mandarin Chinese is difficult to write since it doesn't use an alphabet, as I"m sure you already know, so it takes a lot of memorizing characters to be able to read or write. It's said you should know around 8,000 characters to be able to decently read a Chinese text. Mandarin Chinese is also a tonal language, meaning the pitch of your voice when you speak a word determines the word's meaning, so you'll have to be able to not only speak in correct tone, but be able to aurally distinguish between them. A word can have a lot of different meanings too, and some words sound very similar, so you'll have to learn how to distinguish them depending on context, which can get a little frustrating sometimes. However, these are really the toughest aspects of Mandarin. Most people think "Oh you have to learn so many characters, it must be sooooo hard!!" and make no effort to look past the writing system, but really it makes up for it by having relatively easy grammar and no conjugation to worry about, so you'll never have to worry about changing verb forms or anything like that. Plus words are mostly 1 syllable long or made up of two compounds, so you don't have to worry about long words or which syllable to put the emphasis on in the word.

Russian on the other hand, unlike Chinese, uses an alphabet, so it's very easy to learn to read it in a day or two, and if you come across a word you don't know, you could at least sound it out. Russian also has a lot of words that are cognates with English words, so it's possible to guess what a lot of words mean because they sound similar to English. However, the hardest part I find about Russian is the grammar rules for conjugation. Each verb has to conjugate depending on the subject, words have genders that adjectives need to conjugate to, and Russian uses a case system of 6 different cases, meaning that all nouns and adjectives have 6 different conjugations depending on their grammatical role in the sentence (ie, subject, direct object, destination, indirect object, etc.). And each Russian verb comes in a pair - perfect and imperfect - which you decide which to use depending on if the action is habitual or ongoing, or completed only once. Sometimes the verb pairs sound similar so they're easy to learn and remember, but sometimes they're completely different, so it can get confusing. Also, Russian words can get very long, and where you put the stress when you speak it can change the meaning, so you have to learn where the stress is in each words. Also the letter "e" can be pronounced like a "ye" or a "yo," you just have to learn when it's what depending on the word. But the nice thing is that Russian has very few exceptions to their grammar rules, so once you learn the rule, you can apply it to most instances and be able to correctly figure out the sentence/grammatical structure

Both languages are pretty tough for an English speaker to learn, so really it's up to the individual. Would you be better at memorizing hundreds of characters and being able to get used to a tonal language system? Or do you have no problem with learning conjugation and grammar rules and be happier with a more forgiving alphabetic system?

Chinese Language Difficulty

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Mandarin is in my opinion more difficulty than Russian.

Because there are more letters and the writing is more worse than Russian.

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