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[berryblitz]

I am a Chinese in the Philippines. I only know how to speak Fookien. But as of all Chinese know, Mandarin is the official Chinese language being use all over the world.

I can't speak Mandarin, just a little. And so, I can't apply to jobs requiring Mandarin. But what the heck. On my opinion, the Chinese language is "just" starting to boom. Still, English remains the official language when it comes to career and business. Most jobs require English, and that's the language you know.

So my tip, if you would try to study Chinese, be sure you would learn how to communicate in Chinese, not just the "Good Morning", "Thank you.", "Let's eat" and those simple basic sentences.

Just make sure, if you have a child, make him/her study in a school that teach Chinese language. Your child will surely benefit on that. But as of us right now, Chinese does benefit too. But you see, it's not the required language one should know on job hunting

[zakaluka]

I would say that even if it didn't directly impact your job, learning another popular business language can only benefit you in the future. Even if you always work for companies that conduct business in English, you will, sooner or later, have to interact with a Chinese company or Chinese businessman. In that scenario, your additional skills will prove invaluable. Plus, learning the culture, you will understand the best ways to set up business deals, conduct negotiations and so on.

Regards,

z.

[The Simpleton]

Anyone could tell you that learning Mandarin Chinese. But it's something of a challenge, isn't it? Apart from helping you get your job, it leaves you with a feeling of personal satisfaction that you have mastered something that many others have termed as "difficult". So I suggest that you go for it and learn Chinese. It is indeed a tricky language but not impossible to learn!

It would be better if you learn in two parts. First just speaking and then reading/writing. If you try to read/write right away, you may be a little discouraged, because if I'm not wrong, a mandarin chinese learner has to learn over 3000 kanji characters (the symbols they use instead of alphabets) just to read a newspaper! Now thay may seem a bit tough. Instead of that, if you start by speaking first, you'll gain confidence and then proceeding to the next stage will be a whole lot easier.

Here's a useful site for you to get all the lessons you want: Chinese Pod It offers free audio lessons daily at varying levels so that whatever level you are at right now, you can suitably improve yourselves All the best in your learning and more importantly, all the best for your job!

[iworld200]

i would like to learn chinese.
infact i am crazy behind learning different languages.
but chinese is 1 such language which has a difference, be it the fluency, be it the style....
could anyone please guide me if i can learn chinese online for free?
i mean are there any free tutorials available?

despite all these, as far as my opinion is concerned, i dont think, learning chinese is worth if you arent leaving in china.

but if you are interested then you can go for it. but as far as worth is concerned, i dont find anything as such.