Cake is a lie. O.o

Actually, you're probably looking at Chinese wrong. I looked at Chinese wrong at first, and then I started looking at it at different angles. Now it's pretty easy! Ok. Here's the better way to look at it. First of all, it's probably a good idea to get friends who also speak the same dialect as you're learning. That's the hard part, really. Ok. Then you gotta find something to learn from - some people work better just learning from the books and stuff. Just hand them a few lists and they'll figure it all out themselves. I'm that kind of person, but you might not be. So it's easy to just find that kind of person to help organize everything for you. xD Ok. So, now I'll list a few easy things about chinese.

First of all, their verbs don't change . . . you gotta use a lot of context clues to figure everything out, but there are plenty of context clues in the sentences, when you're good enough to use it, y'know? So anyways. Next, they don't do plurals. Plurals are the same as singular (when spoken). So more context clues. Now are you starting to see why English is so hard to Chinese people to learn? Hehe. So anyways. Those things make it easier 'cause you have less words to learn! O.O

Ok. I learn Cantonese (which I find a lot easier and more beautiful than Mandarin). Cantonese uses the traditional writing rather than the simplified - which actually makes writing it a lot easier than writing Mandarin. Now, simplified writing is suppose to make it easier to learn, but the thing is, with simplified, it's a lot harder to find patterns and stuff. Even though each character is one word, if you look closer, there are smaller characters inside each more complex character.

If you learn the simpliest characters, then the more complex characters are easier. But that's harder to do with simplified writing 'cause everything is all blended together and simplified, y'know?

Now. I'm mostly just explaining writing here, 'cause that's what most people mean when they say that Chinese is super-hard. Anyways. you know how each character is a word, right? But sometimes it takes more than one character to make up one word. You have to memorize these, but it's super easy if you know what each character in the phrase means before learning what word the whole phrase makes up. O.o

All this sounds really hard, but actually it's rather easy. Plus, you can't just go around memorizing random words. You gotta memorize words that relate to eachother - that fit together. Like first learning numbers, and then learning words that you can use the numbers with. Like dates and times and such.

It's pretty easy. But Japanese is harder because of the grammar and such - Japanese grammar is far more complex than Chinese grammar. Plus Japanese uses some Chinese characters in addition with their own sylabary. So that also makes it a little harder. O.o

I've been doing rather well in Chinese - and I'm getting futher than I ever got learning Japanese.

I'm learning Cantonese off these sites: www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk and www.cantonese.ca/index.html

Those provide lists, helpful notes, and voice clips. O.o