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>Could you expand on this?

Chinese is objectively quite bad in terms of language design. It's elaborated on extensively in this rather lengthy article: http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html

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The title is somewhat misleading. It is the Chinese writing system that's hard (in general). Standard Chinese, the spoken language, is only hard for native speakers of unrelated language, which is hardly surprising.

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