学好一门外语需要坚韧不拔的毅力。

Mastering a foreign language involves a lot of patience.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 学好 xuéhǎo to follow good examples
2 一门 yīmén
  1. (dialectal) continuously; constantly
  2. (literary) a door
  3. (literary) a single source; a single origin
  4. (literary) a way; a means
  5. a cannon
  6. a door
  7. a family; a clan
  8. a kind; the same kind
  9. a single source; a single origin
  10. a skill
  11. a style; a faction; a denomination
  12. a subject of study
  13. a way; a means
  14. an event or occurrence
  15. continuously; constantly
  16. the same school or teacher
3 外语 wàiyǔ foreign language

classifier: 門
4 需要 xūyào
  1. to need; to want; to demand; to require
  2. needs
5 坚韧不拔 jiānrènbùbá firm and indomitable (idiom); tenacious and unyielding
=6 的 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 pígéde "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. dì or di in poetry and songs
=6 的 dī a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 dīshì)
=6 的 dí really and truly
=6 的 dì (bound form) bull's-eye; target
7 毅力 yìlì
  1. perseverance
  2. willpower