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- Difficulties in learning western and oriental languages: a comparative approach to learning german and mandarin chinesePublication . Mechsheryakova, Alexandra; Santos, Clara Maria Laranjeira Sarmento eThe following internship report aims to analyse and compare the learning difficulties underlying western and oriental languages. In this case, the first group of languages is represented by German, whereas the second group is represented by Mandarin Chinese. Regarding the report structure, it is organized in six parts. Firstly, in the introduction section, a brief contextualization of the research topic is made and the research method-ologies are defined. Secondly, in the second chapter, some general theoretical back-ground on foreign language learning, the general difficulties related to it and the role of the language teacher are given. After that, in the third chapter, a detailed characteriza-tion of the studied languages is made. Finished the theoretical part, in the fourth chapter, all the practical work performed during the internship as a language teacher is described. Further, in the fifth chapter, the results concerning the learning difficulties are presented. As last part, in the conclusion section, a summing up of the main ideas and findings is made.