Translation for sentence with important a grammar point: 没有。。。那么 This is the English sentence. I was wondering if the translation is correct. I have to use 没有。。。那么 in my sentence.
Chinese is not as difficult as people think。 Use：没有。。。那么
中文没有人们想那么难
Thank you very much.
I feel 中文没有人们想那么难 is grammatically incorrect because 想 is a verb, so we need to add a 的 afterwards.  However, 想 is also an imprecise word choice since it has connotations of &quot;wanting&quot; something.
I suggest the following:

中文没有人们想象的那么难。

I changed 想 (to think) to 想象 (to imagine), and you can check online it's commonly used this way.  Here, 人们想象的 refers to something along the lines of &quot;what people imagine&quot;.
Related examples &quot;in the wild&quot;:

我认为这没有人们想象的那么难。 (source)
I feel this is not as difficult as people imagine.
高校腐败没有人们想象的那么严重。  (source)
Corruption in university and colleges is not as serious as people imagine.
历史上的杜甫，没有人们想象的那么穷苦。  (source)
History's Du Fu [was] not as impoverished as people imagine.
事情远没有人们想象的那么简单。  (source)
[The] matter is rather not as simple as people imagine.