An observation from a native English speaker -I've lived and worked in the Republic of China, and had gotten a fairly good grasp of Mandarin. In my experience tackling Russian I found it much more difficult than Chinese.
Chinese has different sounds, and tones that need to be mastered, but the grammar is dead simple.
Russian also has different sounds, and the grammar is incredibly complex, baroque and inconsistent.
Viktor On 3/22/21 1:35 PM, John Hasler wrote:
deloptes writes:You mean Chinese is easier than Russian and Russian is harder than French?I have no experience with Chinese but I found Russian harder than French (though I've pretty much forgotten both).
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