Re: Rule, Britannia!
Chinese is actually really easy to learn if you can memorize things easily and get past the whole tone thing(as evidenced by Chinese talk shows hosted by former professional wrestlers). English is much more difficult because it is loaded with idioms, borrows from like 3 different languages, and can have a very wide variety of meanings for one sentence depending on inflection.
Its not really a good lingua franca though. Its not easily expanded because it lacks the alphabet part.
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