As one of the world's most widely spoken languages , learning Chinese has many benefits across the spectrum, from gaining
cultural insight to better business opportunities, from making lifelong
friendships to travelling - there has never been a better time to
learn Chinese than today!
Are Chinese characters difficult to learn?
To the untrained eye, Chinese characters can seem like a confusing mess of lines! But characters have a logic and structure of their own, which, once learnt, make them much easier to remember. Let's take a look:
Many characters are pictographs:
And we can combine these 'pictures' (radicals) to create words and meaning: