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I took a year of Mandarin and it was not that hard to speak tbh, I guess people don't do it because of the writing, which is terrible to learn.
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@sun I’ve continuously BTFOed by the writing. A beginner has no choice but to rote memorize the characters, which isn’t easy given that they’re not simple one or two-stroke letters found in Occidental languages.
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@jeff I can't speak or understand mandarin anymore though, it was 19 years ago.
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@snacks @jeff none of them are easy but some are more easy than others.
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@sun @jeff tbh, japanese grammar is easy af, i'm just horendous at vocabulary
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@snacks @jeff yeah I had 10x the problem with french
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@Forestofenchantment @sun it's also stupid in concept, the majority of a language's use is spoken, and you don't have those pictures when speaking
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