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if you LEARNED the language (aka not native speaker) how difficult was it for you to learn correct pronunciations?
I feel like most languages have a ton of "hard" and unique sounds that are kind of like resting points, pauses when you speak, but when i listen to Chinese it sounds like a ton of similar, softer sounds that flow inbetween and link to each other a lot, and i feel like it would be so so easy to just completely fumble a sentence while speaking. Is it?
just curious

well native speakers still have to learn the language lol

I think the more you speak it and hear it, the more it becomes natural. That in turn helps you kind of guess how other words sound, kinda like how english pronunciation is kinda wacky but as you get more used to it, you can kind of just guess how some words will sound

Pronunciation is the hardest part to learn. The grammar is actually simpler than you would think

I found that native speakers of romance languages struggle more with learning Chinese just because of how different the language sounds. But OP is right, there are very many words and expressions with very subtle differences in pronounciation, but mean very different things.

I forwarded your question to one of my friends(100t bang)
He will be answering shortly after his mandarin lecture