Saparmurat_Niyazov
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Yeah, I think so too. I think languages like Chinese as such are pictogram based (or used to be anyway). We're just not used to it because of the completely different alphabet. I still think it'll be hard as hell.
I've got a friend who picks up languages easily, he speaks Japanese and Chinese fluently and in the proper accent and he can speak other Asian languages and some European, as well as Afrikaans and Swahili (he's South African). No idea how the fuck he does it.
That sounds like Vigo Mortensen. I could verify by looking him up on Wikipedia (but I don't feel like it), but I'm pretty sure he's fluent in about 7 languages. That was a big reason Peter Jackson cast him in the LOTR trilogy, because it made it easy for him to learn his Elvish dialogue.