As a chinese,i think writing and pronunciation are hard for foreigners, the pronunciation changes the meaning will change.chinese doesn't have complex grammar as italian, and verb is very easy to use,another thing is as chinese is an ancient launguage,it includes many idioms and slangs,to understand them,you should know the culture,it's hard.I study italian at school, sometimes it makes me sick to remember the complex grammar and the different forms of the verb.i'm trying to find some interesting way to learn this language, do you have some good idea?