Is Greek or Chinese harder to learn?

so in this way, it’s way easier than Arabic or Chinese or Japanese. Also as someone who studies Chinese too, it’s a difficult language for very different reasons. Chinese is easy in terms of grammar, Greek grammar is quite complex; Chinese is hard in terms of vocab, Greek vocab is often quite simple to remember.

Why is learning Greek so hard?

The reason for the Greek language’s difficulty is that it’s less closely related to English than other languages. Greek grammar has unusual features such as cases, and you need to learn a foreign alphabet with a challenging pronunciation.

Is Mandarin Chinese really that hard to learn?

Or the difficulty of taking on a tonal language. Or even the flowery, somewhat poetic style of Mandarin Chinese prose. There is no doubt that Mandarin Chinese deserves its reputation as a difficult language to learn.

Is Chinese the most difficult written language to learn?

Without a moment’s hesitation, I always reply that Mandarin is the easiest spoken language I have learned and that Chinese is the most difficult written language I have learned. I learned to speak Mandarin fluently within about a year, but I’ve been studying written Chinese for half a century and it’s still an enormous challenge.

How hard is it to learn Greek?

The idea of democracy was famously invented in Greek and it’s the language of philosophy and an amazing ancient culture. But how hard is it to learn Greek? Due to the fact that Greek isn’t closely related to other languages, such as English, there are aspects of the language that’s more difficult than others.

Is Greek a foreign language to learn?

Yet other words are indeed very foreign! Greek is a relatively difficult language to master. It’s more difficult for an English speaker than Dutch, French, and German, but it might be easier than Russian and Arabic. The reason for the Greek language’s difficulty is that it’s less closely related to English than other languages.