Should we all learn Chinese ?

Question

It is the most spoken language in the world.
There are 5 Chinese restuaurants in my neighborhood and they all speak English and Spanish.They even have fried platanos on the menu.
I'm being serious.

Great points,most people cannot even speak English yet.

No.I do not plan to learn Chinese.I'm just trying to make a point.Since they are willing to learn other languages to keep their customers happy,we should learn other languages also.

There are Chinese people all over Latin America,they all are successful business owners.They also have no problem whatsoever learning Spanish.

Sorry,wazup,when I went to Central America I saw so many Chinese people I thought I was in Chinatown(Boston).Most of them do not live in China.

Answer 1

I live in China, alomost ten years now, no need to learn Chinese, they are all learning English, they start out in the K-grade, but I think it would be really nice if you learned a few words and when you went out for Chinese to say hello and thank you and a few other things, it would make them feel good, check out website below to start learning

Answer 2

If you are going to be involved in any type of international trade, then learning Chinese may be very valuable to you. Unfortunately, because Chinese is a tone language, it is near impossible to learn well once you are past puberty. If you didn't grow up with a tone language, it is extremely difficult to learn to recognize the different tones. Furthermore, to learn to read Chinese, you simply have to memorize thousands of characters--there is no short cut other than rote memorization, something a native Chinese speaker spends the first 18+ years of their life doing (and doing, formally, on a daily basis, in school, for 12+ years). I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's hundreds of times harder than learning a similar language (for English speakers, the Romance languages like Spanish).

Answer 3

You are confusing size and influence. Of course many millions of people speak Chinese, but almost all of them live in China. English and Spanish are talked by less people but they live in more countries, so they have more influence.

English is the new Lingua Franca, the new Latin in the modern world, also the Latin alphabet is easier to learn.

Answer 4

You have a good point here, there is gonna be a need maybe soon, since the chinesse is gonna be one of the biggest market very soon.
I have heard about a couple of business that are already getting into that market, they are selling "tacos" in China, believe or not! and they have had to learn chinesse.
It's gonna be maybe, as important to a career as learning english.

Answer 5

i think u can learn chinese for fun.
"There are 5 Chinese restuaurants in my neighborhood" ya, u can learn some basic sentences to talk with them.

btw. i want to ask u . are you planning to learn chinese as a second language? if so, i can give u more information that u need.

Answer 6

Half of the United States have not mastered English yet.

...hey,, ya know what they throw at the bride and groom at Chinese weddings?........French Fries.

Answer 7

Most of the people in America can't even speak proper English. Don't ask them to slaughter another language.....

Answer 8

I want to learn the languages of my people, namely, Italian, French, Greek, German, and possibly Castillan.

Answer 9

you have to be determined. chinese is a rather complicated language

Answer 10

l am a chinese
but my answer is no no no no