Chinese is amazingly different from English. We have a different sign for every word or idea instead of an alphabet which you make words out of, so we have to learn by heart thousands of signs and their sounds (and even the way you make the sound can really change the meaning - it's really hard!)

I have learned to speak my family's dialect of Chinese (Cantonese) since I was a baby, and now I go to lessons where I learn to write Chinese too, though I need my parents' help with lots of practice. I like doing it because it seems like it's part of me and my family's culture, and anyway it might be useful one day. This is what Chinese writing looks like: