Learning Mandarin
From magazine :
Mandarin was not always so trendy. It is daunting to learn, especially for westerners, because of the tones used in speech to shift meaning - to say nothing of the thousands of characters that must be memorized to achieve true literacy.
on my own way :
中文以前並沒有那麼流行,它非常難學,尤其對西方人來說尤為困難,因為說話要靠四聲來改變字的意義---- 要背下數以千計的方塊字才能真正識字. Mandarin was not always so fashionable. It is very difficult to learn, especially for westerners, becasue they have to mermorize the thousands of characters to achieve true literacy. The pronunciation is the most difficult for them. Mandarin has four tones - the tones to shift meaning.
