Chinese is a fascinating language, but it is also one of the hardest languages in the world to learn. Ye Feng was extremely grateful that his native tongue was Chinese, which he could speak naturally from birth; otherwise, learning it would have driven him to despair.
Dumbledore had once toyed with the idea of learning Chinese, but after Ye Feng showed him how many different ways could be used to express the simple act of picking something up, Dumbledore decisively strangled that thought in its cradle.
Heaven only knows why merely picking up an object could be expressed with so many different words! And that was just picking something up—what about everything else? Were other concepts just as complicated?
Chapter 123