你好!我叫安娜,你好吗?Hi! My name is Anna, how are you?
This is one of the first sentences I learned in Chinese. A language that
is considered one of the hardest languages to learn. You need to know at
least 3,000 characters to be able to read the daily newspaper. However, the
language itself has tens of thousands of characters. The written form of
Chinese word doesn't indicate its pronunciation, which must be learned
separately. And... out of all languages, Chinese has the most similar-sounding words. Once I was told that I would never be fluent. Did I
believe? NO! Remember: