1. The Hardest Language
In The World
Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard?

3. What’s the hardest language
in the world?
to learn a different language from the 4
parts :
Listening
Speaking
Reading
Writing

4. Listening - Speaking
Pronunciation
•the system of pronunciation
•汉语拼音 han yu pin yin
vowels & consonants
•四声 four tones
āáǎà
•accents & dialects
•over 80 dialects in China

6. Listening - Speaking
Vocabulary
• Simultaneous words
页 yé page
叶 yé leaf
• Multi Sound Words
行 xíng 行走 walk
háng 银行 bank
• Synonyms , etc.
• Slangs, Proverbs, Idioms, Sayings, etc.

7. Reading – Writing
Chinese characters
• Simplified & Traditional
China: 中国 中國 Madrid:马德里 馬德
裡
• Writing order
• Radicals & Strokes
the parts which form the character
•Words – the combination of characters
• Dictionary
how to find a character with Chinese

9. Bibliography
Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard
by David Moser
University of Michigan Center for Chinese
Studies