China preparing for war

[Wolf 10]

Chinese is really hard to speak or understand. They string all the words together and talk really fast. It's like they're in a hurry. Also, the tones can drive you crazy. if you dont' have the right tone of voice in each word, you may be saying something else instead of what you meant. Not that great.<p>Vietnamese, I'm not that sure.

[Malakai]

<blockquote><i>Originally posted by Wolf 10</i><p>Chinese is really hard to speak or understand. They string all the words together and talk really fast. It's like they're in a hurry. Also, the tones can drive you crazy. if you dont' have the right tone of voice in each word, you may be saying something else instead of what you meant. Not that great.</blockquote><p>If you listen to almost any language for the first time it's hard to tell when there is a break between words, and it sounds really fast. Chinese is not the exeption. Ask any foreigner who had to learn english and heard two natives (especially Americans) speaking with each other for his or her first time. And with respect to the tones, Thai is a more difficult language to learn than chinese.

[Wolf 10]

I wonder why everbody says Mandarin Chinese is the hardest language to learn then. Eh well. Thai? I never really heard Thai language. I'll have to see it for myself to understand what you mean.

[Lassic's Chllun]

You're telling me! I once heard two Spanish people talking, and I absolutely could not keep up for the life of me...actually I STILL can't. I speak Spanish very well, but I can read it better. Trying to talk Spanish to a Spanish person gives me migraine :p<br>And I know very little of Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and French.<br>They ALL talk too fast.