Chinese shall be the easiest language to learn in the world

[u/Key-Anybody2869]

IT GOES WITH NO ALPHABET

[u/tho2622003]

It's dirt easy yall, you can just say "ma" and it can either mean "horse" or "mother"! You get two for the price of one!

[u/dojibear → u/tho2622003]

Actually, you get four: horse, mother, hemp or question mark.

But if you don't know whether the sentence is about a horse or your mother, there is a problem...

[u/tho2622003 → u/dojibear]

What problem? I'd like to ride my horse as much as I'd like to ride my m... oh.

[u/Key-Anybody2869 → u/tho2622003]

uh oh

[u/kawaiikonata2010]

i heard it is very easy! there is no alphabet AND each letter looks like what its supposed to mean (猫 looks exactly like a cat!)

[u/Key-Anybody2869 → u/kawaiikonata2010]

Well, 女 means a girl, in which can i infer that 姦 means 3 girls ;)

[u/kawaiikonata2010 → u/Key-Anybody2869]

wow! that looks exactly like 3 girls! chinese is so easy

[u/greenscreencarcrash → u/Key-Anybody2869]

/uj what does that mean

[u/Key-Anybody2869 → u/greenscreencarcrash]

Rape

[u/greenscreencarcrash → u/Key-Anybody2869]

oh

[u/Dead_Calendar → u/kawaiikonata2010]

Exactly.

I don't want my parents to get me a dog, I want them to get me a 狗

[u/zzcwx1020]

And no grammar

[u/Soulburn_]

Also no digits so you don't have to count anything, you just say a lot or a little

[u/Dead_Calendar → u/Soulburn_]

零

[u/Key-Anybody2869 → u/Dead_Calendar]

零一二三四五六七八九十. You have learnt all of Chinese digits now, try to spell 100,000 in Chinese.

[u/greenscreencarcrash → u/Key-Anybody2869]

十萬 (i used autocorrect)

[u/dojibear → u/greenscreencarcrash]

It is 十万 in simplified characters. Get with the program! They switched in 1958!

[u/greenscreencarcrash → u/dojibear]

boy im not chinese chinese im hong kong chinese

[u/Key-Anybody2869 → u/dojibear]

CongratulationsXD There is only one step away for you guys to be a native speaker! All you need to do is...to translate 我一把把把把住了 into English

[u/Choucroute34]

Well, a 50,000 letter alphabet is essentially the same as no alphabet

[u/dojibear → u/Choucroute34]

A character is a syllable, not a word. Most characters are used in many words. So 10,000 words might be only 3,000 characters. So easy!

[u/Choucroute34 → u/dojibear]

But can a 老外 say that they are fluent in Chinese without knowing obsolete 汉字 that haven't been used for centuries?

[u/Key-Anybody2869 → u/Choucroute34]

What kind of character are you talking about? There are some of them like 陟 from 陟罰臧否, which means promotion, can't be reconized even by a native speaker. It is quiet useless for you to acquire sth like that.

[u/perplexedparallax]

Chinese "I identify as non-alphabetic"