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Studying Mandarin in China is a really good idea, for those that feel that they can hack it. Luckily the language is not as hard to learn as it first can seem.
For people who抯 mother tongue is either derived from the Latin or Germanic linguistic branches it is difficult to learn to speak Mandarin.?As an economic decision it may seem to many than Mandarin is just not worth the effort it takes to learn. I would like to challenge this notion with two arguments. First, Mandarin is not as hard to learn as people that only glances at the task makes it out to be. Second, to learn Mandarin opens up a great deal of doors that other languages can抰 touch.
So what do people find so hard about Mandarin? Firstly, the language is a pain to pronounce for people whose tongue is not used to tones. You see, the language is not only dependent on syllables, there are also pitch modulations involved that designates which meaning a particular syllable is meant to convey. The language is also contextual in way that western languages are not: a particular syllable pronounced with a particular pitch modulation can have many different meanings taken on its own, it is only in the context of a sentence that the meaning is clear. The second matter that makes learning Mandarin difficult is that there is no alphabet to describe the above complexities. Instead, as you are probably already aware, the language, like many other Asian languages, is written using characters (picture-like symbols) composed by strokes and groups of strokes (radicals). Now, that is all really really confusing, in the beginning, and the grammar is to not the easiest walk in the park either. But like any other learning experience, learning Mandarin has its own learning curve, and the fact of the matter is that Mandarin抯 curve is much steeper in the beginning than it is after a few months of studying. Once you get used to the arcane workings of Mandarin linguistics the effort to increase the scope and depth of your vocabulary is much easier than the initial struggle to get the first few hundred under your belt.?When you pass the 1000 word marker your brain will be attuned to the Mandarin system and the learning curve will be flatter still.

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