Like Like. Wow — you are so admirable! Two languages at the same time, and pretty challenging ones — so great that you want to learn them! My niece she is 8 announced that she wants her fifth language to be Mandarin! She is bilingual in English and Greek, fluent in German and will start with French in school when she is in Grade 3. She is thrilled! I will tell her about you :. You have motivated me so much!
Thanks a lot for the comment Vicky. Your niece sounds pretty amazing! Happy to help! Sandy, good luck with everything you are doing are going to do.. Hope you can focus on teaching and learning as a DoS and not get too bogged down in admin!
Good luck with the languages. It was really inspiring for me as both a language teacher and learner. Thanks Rob. Looking forward to results soon! The Chinese has come to a bit of a standstill — no time to do anything with it, what with exam preparation and moving to a new country! Thanks for asking!
I'm saying this from an Indo-European perspective though, if you already know Asian languages then maybe you will find Chinese easier. You're that same guy who's been asking about German and Russian and French lately aren't you, that physicist guy. Make up your mind already, geez! You could already know the basic grammar by now if you'd started those 2 weeks ago or whenever it was.
Tue Jun 24, am GMT. I of course will tell you Russian. Russia is a beautiful country. Visit us sometime! Indeed, Chinese is hard, but it is rewarding. If you try, you will find it is not so difficult as others said. So just take a try. I actually already speak another Asian language: Lao. But I don't know how to write it. This kind of makes me want to learn Chinese because I already understand how tones work.
But the Chinese character-learning portion seems much too time-consuming. You need not to learn to write each character, or so is enough for reading most books and news paper. You also can learn Pinyin to type characters with a computer. Korean or Japanese, I say. Korean is considered by some to be the most difficult language for native English speakers to learn, the only thing easy is the Hangul writing system which is very logical and easy to learn.
If you live in the US then there should be no question that Spanish should be the language to learn. If you live in Europe then German would be my choice. Setsuna on Aug 11, parent prev next [—]. Japanese is much easier than both. This obviosuly doesn't answer your question but just a tip. Where does this come from? It's nice to have alphabets, but you still have to learn kanji All that aside, it is ranked as pretty equivalently difficult to Chinese by a lot of sources.
Setsuna on Aug 11, root parent next [—]. Plenty of loan words and easier to pronounce. IMO even Spanish is a better choice. SHOwnsYou on Aug 12, prev next [—]. I am going to go another route. I only had 4 or 5 friends that really studied language in college. The guys that studied mandarin, despite being able to speak it in class with a forgiving teacher, couldn't converse when they got to China.
They both said actual chinese is nothing like what you learn in school. They learned everything when they got there, despite having 4 years of university lessons.
I also know a guy that studied russian. Same thing. Russia was where he learned russian. He had to reteach himself everything becuase what he learned in the states was useless. So my suggestion is this: if you're going to move to china or russia, then move there with a couple books and go talk to people. Otherwise, learn french or italian and use it to get laid. Most likely, even if you learned a more complex language, you wouldn't use it.
So why not study an easier panty-dropping language instead? While I love the Russian language, it's hard to argue that it will benefit your career more than Mandarin. By the way, don't assume that you can learn a language from college courses. All they'll do is introduce you to the iceberg. To actually learn, go to a place where the language is spoken.
If the number one language to learn for anyone not already speaking the language is English, then I would say that Mandarin is approaching number two because of the rapid rise of China.
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