Why is Chinese difficult to learn?

Chinese is probably one of the most difficult languages to learn in the world. The number of foreigners who can speak Chinese is far less than that of China people who can speak English. Of course, there are many English learners in China, but it is universally acknowledged that Chinese is difficult to learn. The so-called language is the symbol used by human communication, which has three attributes: shape, sound and meaning, such as Chinese characters: Tian, whose shape is two horizontal lines, one on the left and one on the right; The sound is "heaven" and flat; It means "heaven, heaven; God ". This is its form, sound and meaning. Together, it is a Chinese character, and thousands of Chinese characters in Qian Qian together are Chinese characters. Words in English, like words in Chinese, have these three attributes. Thousands of English words in Qian Qian make up English. Let's talk about form first. Chinese is different from most languages in the world. It is a two-dimensional square character. When we tell others how to write a Chinese character, we must write it to him one by one and let others know. If we only say "one horizontal, one horizontal, one left and one press" to him, he won't know, because "Fu" is just like "Tian". English words are composed of 26 letters and are one-dimensional. If we want to tell others how to spell sky, just say "S-K-Y" to them. So Chinese is more difficult to remember than English. Say it again. The sound and shape of Chinese do not match. When you see a Chinese character, if you don't know how to read it, you can't generally analyze how to read it from the shape, and there are many homophones in Chinese characters, such as "Dan" and "San". Poor, you can read "check" or "pool". The sound and shape of English are unified. Generally speaking, when you see a strange English word, you can generally pronounce it well as long as you master certain pronunciation rules. Of course, some words in Chinese can be pronounced according to their radicals, such as "copper", "tung" and "hole", all of which have the same sound, but these words are only a few, so the workload of learning Chinese pronunciation is far greater than that of English. Say it again. English is a highly scientific language, and many of its words are highly related, so you can guess the meaning of the words. For example, "cover" means cover; "Uncovering" means uncovering and exposing, which is very simple and clear; And there is another situation in English where a word can be used as a noun, verb or adjective. For example, as long as you master a meaning, you can guess its general meaning in other types of sentences. This is a very flexible language. Modern Chinese is not so flexible. A word is either a noun, a verb or an adjective, and the three usages cannot be mixed. In ancient Chinese, there were mixed usages, such as "jun, jun, minister, father, son, son", "old me and old man, young me and young", which are all mixed usages, but in modern Chinese, this is grammatically wrong. In terms of form, sound and meaning, Chinese is more difficult to learn than English, so Chinese is one of the most difficult languages in the world. Compared with English, Chinese also has its advantages. First of all, one advantage is thinking in images: for example, the word "picking" for picking tea means putting one hand on the wood, which is very vivid; Secondly, Chinese is more romantic, and some artistic conceptions in Tang poetry and Song poetry can only be expressed in Chinese, but not in English. Also, Chinese is faster than English. If it is spoken in Chinese characters, it often takes longer to translate it into English. For the same size area, if you want to brush the slogan so that others can see it clearly at a relatively long distance, the effect of brushing Chinese is definitely better than that of brushing English. But on the whole, Chinese is not as scientific as English. For example, computer programming, the program is English words, but it is hard to imagine programming in Chinese.