zacwrong

Hey Zacwrong

Welcome to Linguaholic.com ;=) I already followed your advice and started studying Chinese many years ago. However, I did it out of pure passion and not because of the fact that China will be the next 'economic giant'. That's just some sort of nice 'side-effect' for me, I guess :=)

Where are you from exactly within China?

kind regards

lingua

Hi Lingua,

I'm actually not from China but from Singapore (which is not near China). In Singapore, students (starting from 7 years old) have to learn English and their Native Language, which is Chinese for my case. It is complusory for Chinese in Singapore to learn Chinese, so I didn't learn it out of passion.

However, the Chinese characters are very beautiful as the characters can portray its meaning. Here is an example from TedTalks.

Where are you from Lingua?

China's economy is definitely growing fast enough and it might be on its way to become the next economic giant. So if you are going to become a businessman or aspire to make lots of money, I would recommend that you learn Chinese so that you can join the market in China. I heard that many schools in Britain and USA are teaching Chinese to their students as early as 7 years old.