对于外国初学者来说，汉字难得逆天。
外国一位脱口秀演员在讲述自己学汉语的感受时说道，汉字看起来像各种“棚子”形状的小画：
You want to be fluent in Chinese? You are going to memorize about 44,000 subtly different drawings of sheds.
如果你要流利地说中文，你需要记住约4.4万个长得差不多的像“棚子”一样的小图画。
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对于英语母语者来说，英语与汉语最明显的区别在于，英语属于表音文字，字符表示语言符号的音，通过英语单词的拼写可以判断它的读音，汉语则不能。
The relationship between the spoken and written Chinese language is rather complex. Its written form has no clues as to how it is actually pronounced.
汉语的书面形式与读音之间的关系相当复杂。从书面文字中无法判断其读音。除此之外，同音字也是学习汉语的一个难点。
The tone system also is a pain because there are many homophones in Chinese only distinguishable by the four tones. Even this is often not enough unless the actual context and exact phrase are identified.
声调系统也是一个难题。汉语中有很多同音字，只靠四个声调来区分，而这很难区分开来be的汉字be的汉字，除非能确定上下文及短语的含义。所以，外国人学汉语有多崩溃......看图感受一下↓↓
一个“打”字，就能把老外整懵了……
你心目中最难学习的语言是什么呢？