Easy part

The Chinese grammar is much simpler. Unlike many European languages, Chinese has no irregular verbs or noun plurals to learn, because words have only a single form, with no suffixes for tense, number, case, etc. (There are some particles which work somewhat like tense endings, but they always take the same form, no matter what they are added to).

Chinese has the same word order as English: SVO. There is a large use of placing verbs at the end with a helper verb, but we have similar structures in English too, example: please have something…. be/ done.

Mandarin’s learning curve is the opposite of the English one. The more you learn the less you will need to rely on dictionaries and everything will become self-explanatory. The opposite is true for English, once you’ve mastered the basics, you have to upgrade to an advanced dictionary to learn even more words.

For example in a specific field like paleontology the names of dinosaurs are difficult to remember and spell in English (unless you’re a 6 year old boy) but in Chinese they are actually quite easy to remember and you could easily find a 24 year old office worker able to recall the names of many popular dinosaurs.