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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do I get the impression that you've never studied Chinese and never will.

Trust me, learning earning the "basics to have a conversation" of any dialect of Chinese is around five times harder than for any variant of Spanish.  
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np:  You are overstating the difficulty.

I learned Chinese as an adult and am decently conversational.  I'm better at speaking Chinese than French, which I studied in high school and part of college.

The learning curve for Chinese is steep at the start -- learning the sounds and learning to speak and hear tones is necessary before learning basic conversation.  But then things pick up quickly.  The grammar is easy, and there are not volumes of complicated verb conjugations to learn.

Reading and writing Chinese is hard, but learning a basic level is doable and worthwhile.

[/quote]  Native speaker of Chinese who doesn’t agree. You probably think that your tones and written characters are better than they are. Chinese students spend a huge chunk of their childhoods getting the writing right.   There’s nothing quick about any of it. [/quote]

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