>>15281017False as shit. The myth exists because people stupidly assume that the person has to learn all 50'000 characters. you only need to learn 3'000 characters to make sense of a newspaper, and spoken mandarin is incredibly easy.
>The grammatical structure is sensible, pretty simple, and surprisingly similar to English. >The pronunciation is incredibly easy. Mandarin has only 3 sounds that English doesn't have. for comparison: French has 12.>The hardest part of Mandarin is finding material to learn from since there aren't really many good Mandarin Cultural exports. 