The difference between learning Chinese and Urdu Language.

• Date: 31 January 2023
• Author: Dr. Kiran Bibi
• Published date: 31 January 2023

Byline: Dr. Kiran Bibi

Chinese character learning for pinyin writing students has always been an essential and challenging task. Chinese is the world's most ancient, exquisite, sententious, and exuberant language, but it is also regarded as the most difficult language to learn. It is not only for non-Chinese, but it has four different levels of difficulty of writing, recognizing, reading, and memorizing for Chinese people. For centuries Chinese trying hard to learn their script but still challenging to find one who can claim a complete understanding; a small number of Chinese possess the ability to recognize, write, read and pronounce precisely while others can't; which makes it even more difficult for foreigners to learn this language. This article highlights the snags for Pakistani students in the learning phase of Chinese characters' attributes and teaching as a foreign language and then talks about their solutions. The history of teaching Chinese in Pakistan is only more than thirty years which is not very long.

The need for learning Chinese in Pakistan expanded after the 1980's Chinese reforms. Nevertheless, students find it difficult and throbbed by Chinese characters giving up halfway through after learning for six months or a year. There could be many subjective and objective reasons for this, peradventure, the materials used in the teaching, the student's unfamiliarity with Chinese...