An observation from a native English speaker -
I've lived and worked in the Republic of China, and had gotten a fairly
good grasp of Mandarin. In my experience tackling Russian I found it
much more difficult than Chinese.
Chinese has different sounds, and tones that need to be mastered, but
the grammar is dead simple.
Russian also has different sounds, and the grammar is incredibly
complex, baroque and inconsistent.
Viktor
On 3/22/21 1:35 PM, John Hasler wrote:
deloptes writes:
You mean Chinese is easier than Russian and Russian is harder than
French?
I have no experience with Chinese but I found Russian harder than French
(though I've pretty much forgotten both).
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