There are a lot of people who have a tough time learning Chinese characters or they avoid learning Asian languages that require learning lots of these symbols . In my opinion it is quite the contrary , I see them to be a major help in learning words because each character represents a word ( or more ) and I found remembering a word from a character to be easier because they look different ( though some of them share similar radicals ).
In other languages we can’t rely on how words look like because they all look more or less the same , some being longer or shorter .