英語は小学生から習い初めて、もう43年間。中国にもこれだけ かかると、97歳になってしまう。 There are only 51-70 pronunciations in Japanese,such as a,i,u,o and so on.
However, there are 300 - 400 pronunciations when seeing the pronunciation table of Chinese.
And still more ther are 5 kinds of pronunciation variations of the + light voice + half 3 voice with four kinds of tones respectively.
When the pronunciations and the listening have been mastered, and when we can read the Pinyin(the pronunciation symbols), that means we have mastered the half of Chinese. The teacher said.
One case is the pronunciation of tsu. In Japanese there is only 1 pronunciation.
And they use the different Chinese character to each tsu pronunciation.
I feel like there is a long way to master Chinese.
I started to study English when I was an elementary student, and 43 years have passed.
When I need the same years to master Chinese, I will be 97 years old.