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Chinese for the Casual Learner

Is Chinese really difficult?

Chinese has earned a reputation as being a difficult language to learn. There are several reasons for this.

So the bottom line is that Chinese can indeed be take a very long time master if one wishes to become fully literate in it. However, as a casual learner you need not bother with the Chinese characters. Instead you should focus your efforts on mastering the Mandarin tones and a few key phrases. The simplicity of the Chinese grammar makes it possible to express a lot of ideas with a very few basic sentence templates.

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