Wilt Idema, another professor in the Sinology Institute at Leiden, explains that students are thrilled at learning their first ten Chinese characters and are still excited after learning a hundred, but when it comes to the 9,900 or so left, it's hard for anyone not to find it a bit tedious!
萊登漢學院文學教授伊維德（Prof. Wilt L. Idema）也表示，第一次學十個中文字，老師一一解釋它們的字形轉化，簡直神妙之至；再學一百個字也仍然興味十足；到了九千九百字，任誰也要大呼無趣了！