Audrey

Trust me, Portuguese is harder than Mandarin. People are afraid of Mandarin because many of them never tried, at least, learning simple sentences. They just see those ideograms and say: "Oh man! It's pretty crazy! I'll never be able to learn that." Mandarin grammar is easier than any other language grammar I had already learned before.

Well, Portuguese grammar is pretty hard. I'm a native Portuguese speaker and I know just a little of grammar. Maybe Chinese could be a great choice. Mandarin isn't hard as people think it is, of course you have to memorize almost 2000 characters to be able to read a newspaper, but...

Hi,

I studied French long time ago, now I am learning Spanish and when I master it well, I want to learn Italian. Knowing French helped me a lot in understanding Spanish quickly and I hope to understand also Italian soon after the beginning of my future study.

I get what you're saying Lucas, that the script can be off putting from some languages though I'm still not sure I'd find Mandarin easier than Portugese especially as it has similarities to Spanish though I've heard it is more difficult. What is so complicated about the grammar?

I'm now actually thinking of German, which does seem complex but would be a valuable language to have.

I have done that question to myself lately and after talking to some people I chose Spanish. I was in doubt about Spanish, French or Chinese and I thought I will take a while to learn Chinese and with the amount of the time I could learn Spanish and French because there are similarities among Portuguese and they.