Is Mandarin Chinese hard to learn?
Yes. Mandarin is little harder than Latin but as a language it has its system, Mandarin compose of pronunciation and writing. Pinyin is the pronunciation systme which help people how to pronounce Chinese, while Chinese character is the writing manner, it has its own rule and mostly the meaning Chinese sentence depends on its Chinese characters. I am very experienced Mandarin teacher having more than five years experience of teaching Mandarin to foreigner. I can online lesson via skype.