Mandarin is one tough language! I have only tried to learn a little little bit and while it wasn't too bad because I had a friend helping me I quickly realized it was a massive undertaking. I wish all who are attempting it good luck!
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It is kind of scary for Westerners, haha. I am sure though that you can learn to speak Mandarin faster than you can learn to speak Polish, Hungarian or Finnish. Lots of myths around learning Mandarin, IMHO. :)
Yeah those languages seem crazy to learn too! I'll stick with my Spanish and my Japanese haha
haha... If you think Mandarin is tough, then Cantonese is tougher.
Instead of 4 tones, there are 9 tones.
There you go! I know that Thai language has a lot in common with Cantonese but 9 main tones sounds insane!
I heard about one with 12 tones but I cannot remember which. I thought maybe some Indian but I google and there's some mention of some Chinese dialect