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There is probably no subject on earth concerning which more misinformation is purveyed and more misunderstandings circulated than Chinese characters ( 漢字 , Chinese hanzi , Japanese kanji , Korean hanja) or sinograms. --Victor Mair from the foreword to Ideogram , by J. Marshall Unger

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Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992)

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The first question any thoughtful person might ask when reading the title of this essay is, "Hard for whom?" A reasonable question. After all, Chinese people seem to learn it just fine. When little Chinese kids go through the "terrible twos", it's Chinese they use to drive their parents crazy, and in a few years the…