The chinese writing system is why I dropped Japanese and took French instead. I'm not spending the next 10 years learning the alphabet so I can read a newspaper.
I don't know how you find it fun. I speak the language on a conversational level everyday but my vocabulary is still limited. There's just so many words and I can't be bothered remembering them all. Ask me to read a Chinese novel cover to cover and I'd toss the book out the window by the 5th page.
it's a really fun language with relatively simple grammar (no verb conjugations) and the word order is very natural for a native English speaker
the complexity is instead more in the tones and writing
The chinese writing system is why I dropped Japanese and took French instead. I'm not spending the next 10 years learning the alphabet so I can read a newspaper.
I don't know how you find it fun. I speak the language on a conversational level everyday but my vocabulary is still limited. There's just so many words and I can't be bothered remembering them all. Ask me to read a Chinese novel cover to cover and I'd toss the book out the window by the 5th page.
I love reading Chinese novels lol