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1、WhyChineseIsSoDamnHardbyDavidMoserUniversityofMichiganCenterforChineseStudiesThefirstquestionanythoughtfulpersonmightaskwhenreadingthetitleofthisessayis,"Hardforwhom?"Areasonablequestion.Afterall,Chinesepeopleseemtolearnitjustfine.WhenlittleChinesekidsgothroughthe"terribletwos",it'sChin
2、esetheyusetodrivetheirparentscrazy,andinafewyearsthesamekidsareactuallyusingthoseimpossiblycomplicatedChinesecharacterstoscribblelovenotesandshoppinglists.SowhatdoImeanby"hard"?SinceIknowattheoutsetthatthewholetoneofthisdocumentisgoingtoinvolvealotofwhiningandcomplaining,Imayaswellcomer
3、ightoutandsayexactlywhatImean.Imeanhardforme,anativeEnglishspeakertryingtolearnChineseasanadult,goingthroughthewholeprocesswiththetextbooks,thetapes,theconversationpartners,etc.,thewholetorturousrigmarole.Imeanhardforme--and,ofcourse,forthemanyotherWesternerswhohavespentyearsoftheirlive
4、sbashingtheirheadsagainsttheGreatWallofChinese.为什么中文这么TM难？作者：DavidMoser看到这篇文章的标题，任何有头脑的人第一个问题都会是“难，是对谁而言？”问的有理。说到底，中国人看起来学的还挺顺当的。当中国小孩儿经历那“狗都嫌的两岁”时，他们用的是中文来把父母们逼疯。几年之后，同样这些孩子就已经在用复杂得不可思议的汉字来歪歪斜斜地写情书和购物清单了。所以我说的“难”到底是什么意思？既然我早就知道本文的语调将充满牢骚和抱怨，那我最好还是说清楚自己到底是什么意思。我的意思是，对我来说很难，一个以英语为母语，试图学习
5、中文的成年人。他会经历教科书、磁带、语伴等等这一整套折磨人的繁琐过程。我的“难”是说的对我自己，呃——当然还对很多其他西方人，那些花费了经年累月，在中文的长城上撞到头大的人们（译者：原文“Chinese”同时表示“中文”和“中国的”）。IfthiswereasfarasIwent,mystatementwouldbeaprettyemptyone.OfcourseChineseishardforme.Afterall,anyforeignlanguageishardforanon-native,right?Well,sortof.Notallforeignlangua
6、gesareequallydifficultforanylearner.Itdependsonwhichlanguageyou'recomingfrom.AFrenchpersoncanusuallylearnItalianfasterthananAmerican,andanaverageAmericancouldprobablymasterGermanalotfasterthananaverageJapanese,andsoon.SopartofwhatI'mcontendingisthatChineseishardcomparedto...well,compare
7、dtoalmostanyotherlanguageyoumightcaretotackle.WhatImeanisthatChineseisnotonlyhardforus(Englishspeakers),butit'salsohardinabsoluteterms.WhichmeansthatChineseisalsohardforthem,forChinesepeople.如果我要说的只有这些，那这些话相当空洞。中文对我来说当然难喽。毕竟，任何外语对非母语人士都很难，对不对？这个嘛，差不多是这样。不过不是所有的外语对任何学生的难度都是一样的。它
