Yenny Marissa Otero Castillo

LeArN ChInEsE

Tuesday, 20. June 2006, 11:11:09

Did you know that one out of every five persons in the entire world speaks Chinese!!! And it is the official language for three of the world's fastest-growing economies: China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

One more reason to learn chinese...

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Comments

cjwilding # 20. June 2006, 12:15

That doesn't mean it is more widely spoken. I think I'll give it a miss.

yennyotero # 22. June 2006, 12:35

But you cannot deny it looks as a pretty promissing country... also, I am inloved with China so just need another excuse for it

myaxin # 16. July 2006, 18:22

Hi,
I'd like to share with you some some useful tools to learn Chinese :
- Learn Chinese : Free Mandarin Chinese lessons. Each of the 15 units contain easy to understand dialogues, usage notes and a practice page.
- Chinese-English dictionary : An easy-to-use dictionary with over 34,000 entries. It can be searched by Chinese characters, Pinyin, or English. Audio pronunciation is available.

Good luck. :-)

Greying_Geezer # 21. July 2006, 00:47

Is there such a thing as "speaking Chinese". In Bejing they speak Mandarin; in Hong Kong they speak Cantonese. I am told by Chinese friends that, although Mandarin-speakers and Cantonese-speakers can't understand each other, they can read each other's writing because the characters are so similar.

yennyotero # 24. July 2006, 07:36

You are right, Mandarin is very different than Cantonese... I understood that Mandarin was the most used one and the one most of foreigners were learning so I think that is the want I want to go for. About the writing, I think they are similar but then, you get the problem between learning traditional or simplified chinese...as if it wasnt hard enough already

myaxin # 13. October 2006, 14:24

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minek # 15. October 2006, 19:08

Mandarin Chinese will be the most important language in te world. It has a chance to be more important than english in daily international communication.