Xībānyá yǔ

 Words in Chinese re generally one or two syllables. There are sometimes 3 syllable words, or things like Xībānyá yǔ which means Spanish language. Nouns tend to be two syllables, adjectives and verbs, one syllable. Xinshiliu, or Saturday, is the most beautiful word I've found so far. 

You can make easy compounds like fruit cake, which is fruit + cake.  Ice coffee is bing + kafei.  It is almost Germanic in word formation. 

They say there aren't many loan words, but there is coffee, sofa, and chocolate.  

There are reduplications, like baba, mama, yeye, for family members. Or xiexie (please) or chang chang (often.). 

Sibilants are a problem.  There are a lot of zh, s, x, ch, ts sounds at the beginning of words, The syllables are usually a consonant plus a rhyme, ending normally with a vowel or nasal sound, never with a hard consonant. This means that syllables tend to sound similar to one another, silibant + nasal.  We are grateful when a word sounds more distinctive or stands out more against a backdrop. 

But I'm supposing all languages sound more mushy the farther they are from one's native language. I'm sure the mass of schwa sounds doesn't make English easy.