Since primary school till now, i have been struggling with
chinese.
now at the jc level, i can frankly tell you that my chinese is
beyond redemption, ask me to retake the PSLE chinese and i can
probably do it with a C grade.
You should go Taiwan or China to study chinese. Then everything
will be reversed, your chinese will be no.1 and english like
shit.
So Chinese
students have to make an effort to master English. But it's really
frustrating. I read English text daily, but I still forget English
words everyday! The amount of common daily words of English is FAR
more than Chinese language. I memorize and forget English words
everyday. Sometimes I even forget the most frequently-used English
words which I have learned in high school.
Listening is another difficulty for most Chinese students. English
teachers recommand us to listen to BBC or VOA radio. In fact it's
quite easy to get English listening-training tapes, CDs, VCDs and
MP3 files in China, Hollywood movie DVDs are everywhere. But most
of us can't catch the words in the conversations of them(tapes).
We(most Chinese students) think that those native speakers speak
too fast, so their English sounds like a kind of alien language(one
guy says"it's Mars language, not Earth one"). Although it's a
simple conversation, we can't understand most part of it(There is
no unknown/new word in the conversation, but I'm still unable to
understand what they say). So I'm extremely nervous when I
encounter an American now.
Why is English so difficult to learn? Dear American friends, I need
your help.