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Old 05-18-2010, 05:46 PM   #98
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker View Post
The two things that really kill Chinese (any flavor) as a worldwide second language are the tones and the writing. One of the various Romanized writing systems can handle the latter, but tonal languages are a stone b*tch for anyone who didn't grow up speaking them. Which is too bad, really, because from what little I understand about the structure of Chinese, it's pretty neat. And I think that, as an isolating language (Chinese: the un-German!), it would be easy to learn -- except, of course, for those tones.
Very true. For someone like myself who is so completely tone deaf it defies scientific explaination, trying to get those tones right is nigh on impossible!

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