in china there's kinds of dialects,and in my hometown people even don't speak mandarin,so i didn't learn chinese alphabet before i went to elementary school.compared with the chinese character,i think chinese alphabet is much easier,because it just took me several months to master it,and the character took me several years.
to your first question,for i'm not familiar with any latin people,so i cannot answer this question.for me,these's chinese courses in elemantary\junior\senior high school,so i learnt chinese for 12 years.
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