China is already a major economic power, it's the most populated country on Earth, and considering how current global events are unfolding their influence is likely to grow much more. Anyone would say that learning Chinese is clearly important for job prospects, but is it really? Does Chinese stand a chance at replacing English in the future?
Is learning Chinese worth it?
Jose Diaz
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Christian Nelson
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James Lee
>Does Chinese stand a chance at replacing English in the future?
No.
The only reason to learn a language besides English is personal interest (you like that country's entertainment, you have a gf from there, you have relatives from there, etc.).
Even if Chinese were to one day replace English, it would be difficult for you to keep up the motivation for learning it when you just view it as a business move.
Carson Foster
There will be a major war between the US and China in the next decade
Aaron Nelson
yes
Nolan Smith
I know English, French, Bengali, and a little Hindi
Daniel Phillips
Probably not. English is a shitty language to learn as an adult from what I heard but even first year speakers of Chinese hate it.
Levi Rodriguez
The Chinese are a mastar race. The world is determined to be ruled by China. We, the inferior Non-Chinese, have no choice but to bow to the Chinese. Let's give it up.
Lucas Cook
Learn a language if you're interested. Learning a language for pragmatic purposes is the epitome of soullessness.
Source: 我在大學學過中文,我對文化有興趣。
William Martin
>NOOOO
learning chinese is the ultimate filter for brainlet retards. yes it is worth it, but you're too dumb to learn it. it's harder than japanese by a large margin too
Anthony Torres
no dont, learning any language other than english is a waste of brainpower, learn a skill instead
only learn non-stem memes if you have personal reasons or guaranteed employment through nepotism or someshit
Blake Harris
japanese is harder
Zachary Brown
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Wyatt Walker
>t. somebody doesn't know either
Brody Flores
Yes, learn Chinese to make a shitposting account on Weibo.
Bentley Martin
>Is learning Chinese worth it
The only correct answer is no, plain and simple. I'm learning Chinese but there's no way such a big investment in time will be ever worth the time. If you do it as a hobby, it's ok, but don't ever do it as "an investment for the future", because the yield would definitely be negative.
Don't get me wrong, it's useful, as the Chinese are absolutely shit at English, no matter the level of education. Even the proficiency of Hongkongers is extremely overrated.
So, do it only if you're interested in their culture, be it their ancient or contemporary one.
Jace Taylor
为何对汉语,中国文化有趣? 要不要到中国留学?
Lucas Adams
>Negative yield
Why do you think so?
Carter Peterson
he hasn't gotten a chinese girlfriend yet so it's has not paid off and his skills aren't enough to enjoy the media or culture so it sucks
Henry Kelly
I am very glad we are on the same land.
Not like you.
Brayden Bailey
Honestly, people have been predicting the Mandarin dominance for a while now but it still hasn't quite happened. English is still more useful, it's hard to predict this changing
Connor Rogers
Because it's a huge investment in time during which you could learn a shitton of other skills that are much more marketable, and it's not gonna give you an edge in job hunting until you're actually fluent in it.
I'm Asian AND gay
Nicholas Adams
why chinese don't go back to china then.. .
Eli Phillips
It's never worth it if you don't understand Hanzi/Kanji/Hanja and the concept of it, not because it's not beneficial, but the time and energy spent is just too ridiculous to begin with
Considering the simplicity of Chinese when you talk (no gendered nouns, no plurals, and people can understand you with very, very broken grammar and not be offended like the baguettes), it's suggested to learn Chinese talking as long as you're okay with sounding pretty retarded when you talk Ching chong
Christian Sanchez
Why japs don't move back to chernobyl
Sebastian Cook
because japan is just too cute!
Charles Perry
Written Chinese would be easy peasy for Nihons. I bet you already lurked at weibo once.
Gavin Taylor
My former Chinese teacher told me that she now has Japanese students and the gap between their comprehension and speaking is incredible, they're able to understand very complex expressions, I guess they also know many Chengyu.
Liam Rogers
It won't ever be the lingua franca because ch*na is the only country that speaks ch*nese. Even if their influence is growing, they will never be able to impose Chinese as an official language in other countries because it isn't the colonial era anymore. English and French will always remain more important because all of their former colonies speak their languages.
Jaxon Ward
It's not because they're the only nation that speaks it. It's because English already has its footing set.
David Hernandez
>Chinese as an official language in other countries because it isn't the colonial era anymore
They just need to become so economically powerful that foreign governments will include Chinese in their school curriculum
I actually can see Chinese become popular in the Far East, and Africans that speak tonal languages also don't seem to have many problems learning to speak it.
It probably will never become a world lingua franca, but it can become a regional lingua franca IMO.
Lucas Scott
The main obstacle to it replacing English is the characters. Speaking Chinese is not really that hard, the grammar is much simpler than most European languages. Some people suck at tones, but if you have a decent ear even that's not a huge issue. Literary comprehension though... Let's just say, an incoming graduate student in say the French department would be expected to be able to read and comprehend Proust untranslated. In the Chinese department, it'd be impressive if they could get through the first few pages of Harry Potter.
Ethan Wright
>Anyone would say that learning Chinese is clearly important for job prospects
>unironically wanting to work with chinks
Don't do this. The Pooh honey ain't worth it.
Colton Reed
spoke chinese is the most difficult part after calligraphy/handwriting characters.
your standard of chinese is like thinking some 70 iq pidgin version of a language that knows how to buy groceries is considered fluent.
if you can't discuss complex and abstract topics you don't know the language.
Aaron Williams
>it'd be impressive if they could get through the first few pages of Harry Potter.
A friend of mine got her Bachelor's in Japanese and she had to read Murakami for her dissertation, in Japanese. Would you say that Japanese is easier to read?
Logan Cruz
It's more grammatically complex, but a bit less of a knowledge burden when it comes to reading. with 2-3000 characters, you're basically good to go, whereas it's about double that for Chinese.
Parker Diaz
What, this?
Blake Perez
>their influence is likely to grow much more.
Like the mexican weather girl furthered the mexican cultural incluence i guess
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