I kind of regret not learning chinese... my parents use to force me to learn chinese but i...

OMG same! I only know simple ones eg numbers and I regret it ever since cuz in my school I do Japanese and it's similar so if I learned how to write it I would only needed to learn the language

Exactly! I have a hard time learning kanji and all the chinese character look like alien to me. My friend recommend me to start by reading a chinese novel. And all the words look like alien...Σ( ￣□￣||)

I feel your pain, but it's good that ur reading manga and manhwa like to begin with cuz in my class I already know like most japanese words and how to write in romaji cuz of manga and watching anime, that's how I was good at my English and Irish cuz I watched TV shows

Wow! You know lots of languageヾ(☆▽☆)!! Thats amazing!!!!!!(≧∀≦) i only know 3 language which is chinese(only know how to speak but not read and write), malay and english. I know a few chinese dialect(cantonese, hokkien) too but not fluent. I know how to count spanish from 1-10 thanks to a cartoon my cousin watch i wonder if irish is hard...i would love to learn more language if i can(๑•ㅂ•)و✧.

God I hate irish, it's like a really Catholic religious language, like I used to love it when I was in primary school until I grew older cuz it's kinda pointless cuz in my county Wexford, Leinster, no one speaks irish unless ur like in another region which is the north part of Ireland I think, plus it's a compulsory subject so u don't have a choice, but I did cuz I'm not irish but I still learn it
And yeah I speak cantonese and hakka as well

Mandarin/chinese actually has quite simple grammar in the language but the writing mechanism is amazingly complex... well, the spoken language too, because different tone has different meaning... I had a compulsory mandarin course in the university and it has oral exam where we have to speak face to face with the lecturer... lmao... i messed up at that time... XD

I think kanji is a lot more manageable than chinese chara coz it's a lot simpler... what makes japanese is difficult is the grammar, I think... It's so confusing.. so many details.. and I messed up too because I watched too much animes XD

I had a similar experience my parents are both Chinese so it’s was kinda natural for to learn Chinese however I also rejected it Chinese character were just confusing to me my parents also sent me to Saturday school before so I know how read and write like a tiny bit but my speaking is way better

Sometime, i find chinese very difficult because one single word have different meaning when you pronounce it differently. I got scold once when i say another word (a bad word) instead of the word i want to say.. （/TДT)/

Lol I feel the same way about the chinese and japanese writing system... I mean even a super difficult language like Russian has a phonetic alphabet... I'm ashamed to say I got so frustrated I sometimes even wished by couldn't Alexander Magnus or the Ancient Romans or anyone else with an alphabet system really, have reached further east...