Is it difficult to learn Mandarin Chinese?

Because of the China´s rise.... or another reason..
Every day, there are more people who want to learn Mandarin Chinese, and Mandarin Chinese becomes a very important language in the world. Is it hard to learn Chinese? This is going to be a very common question for many people....and what is the answer for this question? I think it depends on many factors, e.g, what is your mother language? If your mother language is Japanese, I think it is not hard or difficult for you to learn Mandarin Chinese, because Japanese and Chinese have similarities. Therefore, there is no definitive answer.

And of course, Chinese language is hard to learn, from the viewpoint of Chinese characters, but, I think the Chinese grammar is very simple, e.g. the verbs don´t have past form, future form, or present form, they are always the same. In other words, the Chinese verbs don´t have conjugation. ^ ^

Anyway, I think this is not the question that you should worry....If you have the need o interest to learn Mandarin Chinese, the question that you should worry is "How to learn Mandarin Chinese.", or "How to memorize the Chinese vocabularies",...etc...so...have fun with the learning of Mandarin Chinese ^ ^