Why Learn Chinese?
There are many reasons!
First, Chinese is the language of nearly 1/4 of the world's population.
Speakers of Chinese not only live in China, Taiwan, and Singapore, but are also
spread throughout Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe, where large
Chinese communities congregate. Chinese people today are playing increasingly
important roles worldwide.
Second, learning Chinese is an extraordinary and agreeable experience
through which you can immerse yourself in a different culture. Unlike most
languages, Chinese has a unique ideographic writing system, which provides
visual comprehensibility. The grammatical structure of Chinese is not only logical,
but also pragmatic and is related to the particular way of Chinese thinking.
Knowledge of the written language opens up the culture of one of the world's
oldest civilizations.
Third, traditional Chinese culture,
From Confucianism and Buddhism to martial arts and Chinese cuisine, our
culture has an enormous influence on Eastern and Southeast Asian nations.
Also Chinese culture continues to greatly inspired the western world!
Last, but not least, the People's Republic of China currently boasts the fastest
growing economy in the world and is widely regarded as potentially biggest
global market in the twenty-first century. Proficient speakers of Mandarin
Chinese will find jobs in various fields such as business, government, international
relations, information technology, tourism, education, translation and much, much
more.
Mandarin Chinese is not as difficult as think