學外語很費時間。

To learn a foreign language requires a lot of time.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 學 xué
  1. to learn
  2. to study
  3. to imitate
  4. science
  5. -ology
2 外語 wàiyǔ foreign language

classifier: 門
3 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
4 費時 fèishí
  1. to take time
  2. time-consuming
=5 間 jiān
  1. between
  2. among
  3. within a definite time or space
  4. room
  5. section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars
  6. classifier for rooms
=5 間 jiàn
  1. gap
  2. to separate
  3. to thin out (seedlings)
  4. to sow discontent
=5 間 jiǎn
  1. (obsolete) Used in place names.
  2. (obsolete) Variant pronunciation of the classifier sense.
  3. Used in place names.
  4. Variant pronunciation of the classifier sense.