I'm learning Mandarin. Imo, it's not super difficult because the grammar is pretty straightforward. They don't have any tenses and therefore don't conjugate verbs (which was my least favorite part of my brief foray into spanish).
I'm also learning to read Mandarin as a side thing. I didn't even realize there's no tenses. There's no grammatical gender, the sentence structure is subject-verb-object (the same as english), and the way the characters are constructed is often very logical. It's a dope ass language, way more intuitive than German or Japanese, the other two I've tried my hand at.
I figure it makes sense because it's so far away from what I'm used to and also grants me access to the language of a gigantic swath of people with whom I have almost no cultural exchange otherwise.
I'm learning Mandarin. Imo, it's not super difficult because the grammar is pretty straightforward. They don't have any tenses and therefore don't conjugate verbs (which was my least favorite part of my brief foray into spanish).
I'm also learning to read Mandarin as a side thing. I didn't even realize there's no tenses. There's no grammatical gender, the sentence structure is subject-verb-object (the same as english), and the way the characters are constructed is often very logical. It's a dope ass language, way more intuitive than German or Japanese, the other two I've tried my hand at.
I figure it makes sense because it's so far away from what I'm used to and also grants me access to the language of a gigantic swath of people with whom I have almost no cultural exchange otherwise.
The communism thing is really just a niche bonus.