15 Reasons Why Learning Chinese Is Easier Than English

http://www.buzzfeed.com/nataliemorin/reasons-why-learning-chinese-is-easier-than-english

1. Mandarin does not care about tenses.

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2. pinyin is totally phonetic

3. It doesn’t have that many combinations of sounds.

4. Mandarin ain’t got no time for too many syllables. Mandarin ain't got no time for too many syllables.

5. You can usually understand people even if you can’t make out the tones.

6. You could even just learn spoken Chinese with Pinyin and be illiterate.

7. Don’t like articles? GREAT! Mandarin doesn’t either.

8. Nouns don’t have plurals.

OR genders.

10. All sentence patterns are fixed.

11. Vocabulary makes more sense.

12. Mandarin and Cantonese and other dialect characters are written the same.

13. Numbers are used wayyyy more effectively and efficiently.

14. You don’t necessarily have to worry about dealing with different dialects.

15. Some words actually look like the thing they describe.

It’s kind of like reading a picture book. Ish. Which is always cool.