http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Lily+Chao Education Lily Chao Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=62339&ca=Education Chinese characters seem the most difficult part for foreign friends to learn the Chinese language. The main reason for that I think may be Chinese characters look very different from their quarter parts in the Roman languages: each character represents not only the pronunciation, but a certain meani... Education Lily Chao Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=57904&ca=Education Many foreign friends of mine are complaining to me that Chinese is so hard to learn: the ridiculously difficult writing system, the confusing four tones, the extensive system of measure words, so a lot of things to memorize… It seems that I should thank God just for being born Chinese. Is Chinese re...