Lessons 1-10 Mandarin Chinese Lesson 13: 难 Difficult

Conversation 13

A 说汉语很难吗?
   shuō Hànyŭ hĕn nán ma?
   Is it difficult to speak Chinese?

B 不太难。
   bù tài nán.
   It’s not too difficult,

A 很多外国人学汉语吗?
   hĕn duō wàiguórén xué Hànyŭ ma?
   Do many foreigners study Chinese?

B 很多的。
   hĕn duōde.
   Very many.

说 外语 难 吗? Is it difficult to speak a foreign language?
Shuō wàiyǔ nán ma?
Speak external-language difficult question?

学 外语 不 难。It is not difficult to learn a foreign language.
Xué wàiyǔ bù nán.
Study external-language not difficult.

说 汉语 很 难。Speaking Mandarin is very difficult.
Shuō Hànyǔ hěn nán.
Speak Han-language very difficult.

写 汉字 很 难。Writing Chinese is very difficult.
Xiě Hànzì hěn nán.
Write Han-characters very difficult.

说 英语 不 难。Speaking English is not difficult.
Shuō Yīngyǔ bù nán.
Speak English-language not difficult.

说 俄语 难 吗? Is speaking Russian difficult?
Shuō Éyǔ nán ma?
Speak Russian-language difficult question?

说 俄语 很 难。Speaking Russian is really difficult.
Shuō Éyǔ hěn nán.
Speak Russian-language very difficult.

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Mandarin is a tone language--that is, different pitch patterns actually distinguish one word from another. Mandarin has no irregular verbs or noun plurals to learn, because words have only a single form. Because Mandarin is completely unrelated to any European language, you may think it might be difficult to develop your vocabulary. However, it really is not that difficult. Why? The reason is that the meanings of many words consisting of two or more characters can be inferred from the meanings of the characters or even the roots of individual characters. So, your vocabulary can rapidly expand when you have grasped the basic characters and character roots.