I say to my grandma that I`m gonna start to learn chinese she says: Oh it`s so difficult to learn it!
I don`t think it`s so difficult!
How do YOU think?

CFOMMENTS WHAT DO YOU THINK?

No, it is not that hard to learn to write. There is actually a great deal of logic in the characters and after a while you will understand how that works and then it takes less efforts to learn new characters. Personally i find writing to be the easy part, very much thanks to skritter, but speaking is what is for me difficult. Takes time to get used to and getting the tones and sounds correct. I personally do not think that Chinese is that very much harder than other languages as a whole. My daughters learn English and Chinese (besides Swedish) at the same time and is actually more fluent in Chinese than in English. They seems to have less problems catching up Chinese. This is largely due to the immerse situation they are in with constant exposure to Chinese.

^^ the same thing!

with skritter, no.
without skritter, yes.

simple as that. i tried to learn writing for 4 or more years, never got the hang pf it. i wasnt able to remember the easiest kanji, because they just looked like a bunch of strange lines to ke, maybe beautiful pictures of strange lines. now, with skritter i mastered over 360 kanji in the last 4 months. skritterwas the best thing that happened to me. coupled with the Midori app i am now able to learn kanji easily and fast and i am able to look up new kanji compoundwords i see in (for example) anime.

(i am learning japanese, not chinese. but characters are 95% of the time identical)

learn how to write is time- and energyconsuming!

you cant learn writing and reading just by passing by some streetsigns even if you have the best possible immersion situation and you live in china.

but then again it greatly depends on your attitude and your age.
as long as you open your chinese textbook or a chinese newspaper and you have this "yucky"-feeling that its something utterly strange - then it might take more time to learn how to write or read because your attitude is "negative", which means that you feel it might take ages an you will never really learn it... (your inner feeling).

thinking positive and changing your attitude helps - but this takes time.

when you can see yourself infront of your inner eye opening a book written in chinese and just reading it like a normal thing you might be on the right track.
attitude towards a language is EXTREMELY important.
but this attitude i men has nothing to do with rartional thinking, it includes all the fears of failure...

so: convince yourself its not difficult to write and it will be easy!

Thanks for you everybody, who answered, I`m gonna show the results of this´" Mini Quiz" to my grandma!

:)

P.S. would you see my profile?

I don't know if you can class Chinese as a "difficult" language to learn in terms of grammar e.t.c. But what makes it difficult is that it is hugely time consuming. Four times as long as easier European languages, so you have to keep the motivation for a much longer period. Learning vocabulary, especially at a level to write is much slower. I feel once I have learnt Chinese to a satisfactory standard and I come to learning Spanish, it will be a walk in the park.