I heard that Chinese language gets more and more popular to learn in many countries, such as US.... Is that true? Please tell me the true situation in your country.
your country???
situation in your country???
Why do people learn Chinese???
What's your opionion???
Thank you!!!
2006-12-11 13:51:05 · 13 answers · asked by dreamoppet 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
In Indonesia the Chinese language was prohibitted by the former President Suharto in 1967, but now everywhere people in Indonesia are learning that language. Even native Indonesians and government officers of Indonesia are learning the language.
The main reason is because 70 % of the economy in Indonesia is in the hand of only 5 % of Chinese population in that country.
It is very hard to get an employment in the big companies in Indonesia if you do not know Mandarin, because they always put one of the conditions is the ability to speak Mandarin fluently.
Even in Australia the interest in studying Chinese is very great.
2006-12-11 15:42:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't talk about the US although I met a lot of Us student coming to China to leanr Mandarin.
But in France It has now become the 5th foreign learning at school behind English, Spanish, German and Italian.
Why do they learn English? I would for some the need to experience something new or because they see that China is the future.
My opiniom : I began learning Mandarin 4 years ago and I am now working in main land China. I started learning Mandarin because I wanted to get closer to my Chinese side as I am half Chinese but was always raised as a French.
2006-12-11 14:00:01 · answer #2 · answered by kl55000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bet you'd be surprise to learn that Mandarin is the MOST spoken language in the world and NOT English...
Its all in the population, China has a whopping four billion population! It is projected that Mandarin will be the new business language in ten or twenty years time; it will dominate about two-thirds of the corporate world.
This is why I am personally interested in learning Mandarin, because I have plans of putting-up my own business in the future, and I will have a wider market if I know how to speak Mandarin!
By the way, I am a Filipino, and there are lots of Chinese/Filipino-Chinese in our country, but the common tongue is still Tagalog and English...
Xiexie ni.
2006-12-11 14:29:27 · answer #3 · answered by hypnotech 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chinese is a growing trend in the US. I think because it so mysterious. In the city that I live in they are offering it at local elementary and middle schools instead of just a foriegn language at the high school.
2006-12-11 14:01:17 · answer #4 · answered by Melissa B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Vancouver, a lot of chinese people here, that's why I learned to speak it...but for the rest of Canada I just don't know.
2006-12-11 13:54:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
chinese is one of the major language in malaysia.
but, it still not the major language in government, school...
there's about 20% of malaysian are chinese, there are chinese school for their children, usually the malaysia chinese know few language:chinese,malay and english...
china is growing stronger, chinese is becoming more and more important.....
but unfortunately, chinese is very hard to learn, many of the malaysia chinese know the oral chinese but not the literate, some of them don't even know how to write their own chinese name..........
moreover, population of malaysia chinese is decreasing, and the chinese school getting less and less,some are closing because of located in rural and less of student,and the government don't want to help the move the school to a town, they don't want to help...
2006-12-11 14:05:52 · answer #6 · answered by vandoren 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in Turkey, in Istanbul..And I'm sure that Chinese isn't popular here..English, German, French, Italian are more popular..Chinese is a difficult language..
2006-12-12 02:06:16 · answer #7 · answered by Irmak 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the US (WA State at least) Chinese is not very popular unless you are in the Seattle area and there are a lot of asian people there.
2006-12-11 14:00:20 · answer #8 · answered by Ms.BusyBody 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only flippin language problem in the US is Spanish! Kids are being forced now days to learn Espanol so they can communicate with immigrants when it is them who should learn ENGLISH!!!!!!!!...Hope I helped:)
2006-12-11 13:55:55 · answer #9 · answered by imd72330 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ireland, not much popularity, learnt basic Mandarin, no one to practise it on... why did I learn it? Curiosity... Opinion, cool lang'
Zai jian...
2006-12-11 13:54:18 · answer #10 · answered by K V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋