Lily Chao is the author of EaseChinese.com at http://www.easechinese.com, a website providing a collection of reviews and recommendations of Chinese language learning resources, and more. She is also a would-be TCSL (Teaching Chinese as a Second Language) teacher, living and studying in Beijing, China.
The Chinese language is really not that difficult to learn as you imagined or heard about, it's just very different from your mother tongue, but difference does not necessarily mean difficulty, right?