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Re:Tongue Twisters: In search of the world’s hardest languag... by yorwba on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @05:24AM (#26887180)
The grammar is not that simple. I think that misconception is caused by people noticing that they don't have to memorize conjugation tables like when learning fusional languages, but then they fail to realize that the complexity has not disappeared, it's just encoded in word order and choice of grammatical particles instead.

There's actually an NLP shared task challenging researchers to automatically detect grammar errors learners make when writing Chinese: http://www.cged.tech/

Re:Tongue Twisters: In search of the world’s hardest languag... by lormayna on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:13AM (#26887524)
I know that it's not so simple. But at least for a basic conversation, grammar it's not the biggest roadblock.
Re:Tongue Twisters: In search of the world’s hardest languag... by FabHK on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:14AM (#26887527)
^ this. I find it a bit annoying when people tell me that Chinese "has no grammar" because it is not inflected.