How long did Mark Zuckerberg learn Chinese?

Learning for 42 years “He deserves credit for undertaking sustained study of Chinese while growing a major Internet company,” agreed Thomson. “He and his firm do not need more PR, but full access for Facebook in China would be great.”

Is it difficult to follow the Mandarin tones?

Mandarin tones are one of the classic “difficult parts” of the language. Despite that, textbooks and teachers often do a bad job of teaching them. A big part of this is that the focus is too often on teaching tones, rather than teaching how to learn tones.

Is Chinese a fun language to learn?

Chinese has no tenses, no cases, no genders and simple grammar. When it comes to the issue of grammatical complexity, Chinese is really one of the easiest languages there is to learn. It also treats tenses in a very simplistic way.

Is it hard to understand Mandarin Chinese?

Mandarin is a tonal language, which can make misunderstandings common when you’re new to the language. But that can happen in any every language! So don’t be too hard on yourself if when you start out you find it hard to speak and understand Mandarin Chinese.

Does Mandarin have a high or low inflection?

When compared with other languages like Arabic, which has a high inflection, Mandarin actually has minimal inflection, which tends to be easier for English speakers to learn and speak.

What is the best way to practice Mandarin?

One great way to practice your Mandarin Chinese is through WeChat, which is free to use. What’s more, you can offer up your English (or other language) skills in exchange and both practice your target languages together.

Is Chinese difficult to learn?

Another way of looking at it is that Chinese isn’t more difficult per step you have to take, it’s just that there are so many more steps than in any other language, especially compared to a language close to your own. I’ve written more about this way of looking at difficult as having a vertical and a horizontal component here . But why?