What do you think about Mandarin(Chinese Language)?

Answer 1

I LOVE IT! ...or 我愛! that means I love it! This language is unique and has many symbols instead of letters. for instance, this is the alphabet for Chinese:

b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

this is what the alphabet would look like in English symbols

Chinese is a little more simple. English, you say: pork, beef and other things. in Chinese you just say pig meat or cow meat. also, in English there are different sound for animals. you would say: birds go chirp. in Chinese, it's just bird cry or wolf cry. simple!

Answer 2

Despite what you may hear otherwise, it is not an ugly-sounding language. It all depends on who is speaking it (and I admit, a lot of the time they seem to be yelling at each other.. but that's a problem with the person, not the language.) I know lots of people who make English sound like a terrible language! :D

Despite what 'experts' like to say, Mandarin Chinese is actually not difficult to master, given the right circumstances. If you are able to live in a Chinese environment (ie China or Taiwan), and have -both- the time and dedication to study it (and perhaps a bit of talent for languages), you can be speaking very fluently (and reading/writing) within two years or so.
One of the main problems people have learning it is the lack of environment, time or dedication. The other problem is that it is very difficult in the beginning, due to its tones and different grammar. However, once these are learned, you can quickly gain fluency due to its simpler grammar (compared to other languages, especially English!).

Answer 3

Personally, I love it, but sometimes it can be really infuriating. As a Hong Konger, I speak Cantonese and have to learn Mandarin, but it can get really weird because you have to change Cantonese slang into written form of Chinese before you speak it. Maybe I bios, but I think that people who speak Mandarin will master written Chinese much better. Sure, the Chinese seem like their yelling because they often talk very loudly, but what some of you said, I too agree, it doesn't sound to pretty, in a sense, nor does English, but it serves well to know the language.

Answer 4

Very difficult to speak. I know an American white guy who's learning Mandarin. He's come along way, but he still can barely get by after years of study.
The problem is if you are an English first language speaker, you will have a difficult time with the tone usage in that language. The vocabulary is not bad, but trying to get the tone right is really difficult, you will always have a bad accent.

Answer 5

I think Mandarin is one of the hardest language to master. Today , everyone learns the romanized version (Hanyu Pinyin) - the simplied form of Mandarin. The beauty of the language lies in the written Chinese character. From the character itself, you can derive how the character originated from. To understand further, you need to go to those sites which explains about the evolution of the language and its origin. I have studied Mandarin and hope to reach the proficiency level soon.

Answer 6

properly!!! A classical language, is a language with a literature it particularly is classical— i.e., it would be historic, it would be an self sufficient custom that arose often by making use of itself, not as an offshoot of yet another custom, and it ought to have a huge and somewhat wealthy physique of historic literature. How Tamil is classical? Claims concerning the "often happening Classicality of Tamil": a million. Lemurian beginning 2. Phonological simplicity 3. Catholicity . 4. Tamulic substratum of the Aryan relatives of languages. 5. Morphological purity and primitiveness . 6. The presence of the words ‘amma’ and ‘appa’ in only approximately all large languages in some style or different. 7. Absence of Nominative case-termination . 8. Separability and magnitude of all affixes . 9. Absence of morphological gender 10. Absence of arbitrary words 11. Traceability of Tamil to its very beginning. 12. Logical and organic order of words . 13. Absence of twin extensive style . 14. Originality and organic progression . 15. maximum order of the classicality . Classical Languages in India: a million. Tamil 2. Sanskrit 3. Kannada 4 . Telugu Classical Languages in the international (different than Indian): a million. Sumerian 2. Egyptian 3. Babylonian 4. Hebrew 5. chinese language 6. Greek 7. Latin * however the 1st 3 languages exitsed alongside with all 7, purely the latter 4 alongside with Tamil and Sanskrit are mentioned as as Worlds Classical languages

Answer 7

Dropped out after nine years of Chinese school... bleh. I speak it, I can sort of read it, and my writing looks like sh*t, but I can still do it... somewhat. lol Mandarin sounds prettier than other languages like Cantonese... (my opinion). But unless you have an interest in learning it, you're going to hate it. I personally love Japanese, Spanish, and English. I speak all four! Look at how utterly talented I am! j/k

Answer 8

where I live we have way too many mandarin speaking Chinese...I hate the language...they yell at each other when they talk, like they were trying to talk to someone who was 50 feet away, not 2 feet away! Ugly sounding language...not like Italian or something like that!

Answer 9

I think that it's a cool language. It sounds different from most languages and can definitely sound nice when spoken well. The writing is great because almost every character was derived from a picture from the past and holds great meaning. And most importantly, I take pride in the language because it is part of my heritage.

Answer 10

Mandarin is not very hard if you are trying to learn it with a proper chinese teacher. Cantonese isn't so easy. Don't bother learning cantonese.