Yes you should learn Chinese – but why? Here you may find 6 good reasons why learning Chinese is important.
1. The World is Changing
You have heard it before – Globalisation, Outsourcing, Free Trade. The world is changing, even if the USA and the European Union continue as important actors and the world scene, the have to compete with other countries, mas of all – China. Since China has joined the WTO – it’s growing economy, solid comercial balance and big foreign money reserves – interacting with China is more and more important – To the benefit to everybody. But how can you interact and do buisness with someone and in such a huge country like China if you don’t even understand the language?
2. Because everybody does
Okay, to be honest – not everybody is learning Chinese (apparently it’s not that easy 
). But did you know, that the number of students learning Chinese is the fastest growing among all foreign languages? Quiet often demand in Chinese classes are higher that Chinese teachers available, because not only students, also many business(wo)men an employees start learning Chinese.
3. To maintain your competitiveness
In some years, many students will learn chinese, but nowadays, speaking chinese is an real advantage when it goes to find a job after earning your first university degree. If you learn chinese, you are different and you can benefit from many new opportunities – linked to the growing trade with China.
4. Manufacturing in China
China has more than 1.3 billion inhabitants, an unbelievable working force – with lower cost than in western europe and northern america. Even if China is home to millions of factories, creating goods for the whole world, many of these companies are managed by or in cooperation with foreingers. If you learn Chinese, you can faster cooperation between your local companies and chinese factories.
5. China can soon become the biggest consumer market in the world
China is not only the factory of the world, producing many of our daily goods, it’s also an fast growing market with more than a billion consumers – foreign companies rush into the Chinese market it the hope of huge benefits. By creating one marketing campaign, you can reach more people than in any other country of the world. Todays China is very different from yesterdays China. As in any other country – the young generation want to have it’s own MP3-Player, IPhone etc. This growing trade with Chinese makes it for foreign companies more and more important to have qualified employees, speaking chinese and able to comunicate with locals in China and abroad.
6. More than 1.3 billion people speak Chinese
If you learn Chinese, you can comunicate to more people than ever before. You can learn more about a fascinating culture – get in contact with people, make friends, create opportunities. Can you image a language that opens more doors than Chinese? We don’t. Enjoy learning Chinese !
Ok so i have to write an editorial about why we should learn chinese and japanese more. What are the big and main points to make.
hi
the main points about why you should learn chinese are in the above article, also see this, written by a yahoo answer posterer:
‘If I were younger and I wanted to guarantee a future livelihood for myself, I would devote my time to learning Chinese and the Chinese culture. China is *the* up and coming nation in the world today.
In 10 or 20 years’ time, or even sooner, Westerners with an intimate knowledge of Chinese will be invaluable in all the different kinds of social, economic, political, etc contact that will be occurring between the West and China.’
i felt the above comment was inspirational
japanese you can also use an economic angle. and communication/cultural awareness etc in an increasingly globalised world.
i have no idea!!!! well i guess because alot the people that have facebooks and you could communicate with them like a pen pal
Hey , where can i learn the chinese ? Thank you!!
Chinese being spoken by 1.3 billion people… what a falacy! Chinese (Understood as Mandarin) is spoken mainly as a 2nd language by half the chinese population.. certainly not 1 billion people…
Dude, than Spanish doesn´t have that many speakers as it said there is…. Don´t forget spanish also has lots of dialects.
Also, if you learn how to read and write fluently in either any dialect of Chinese you´ll be able to communicate with them all. Not speak but read for example to communicate with letters (let´s say for business) or movies with subtitles (all Chinese movies/dramas have Chinese subs on them, even pop songs and stuff like that)
So it doesn´t matter if it´s Cantonese, Mandarin, Shanghainese…. Although yeah Mandarin is the most spoken therefore when people simply say Chinese they´re referring to Mandarin 普通话
i want to study chinese in university here in nigeria.i want to be amomg those that learn the world market language. And also i want 2 work in china