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OfflineRonaldFuckingPaul
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Learning Mandarin Chinese
    #17358201 - 12/08/12 10:51 PM (11 years, 2 months ago)

Mandarin is one of the "major" languages of the modern era.  I figure it'd be a good idea to learn it for both practical and recreational reasons.  Anybody here speak/write mandarin?


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Re: Learning Mandarin Chinese [Re: RonaldFuckingPaul]
    #17358275 - 12/08/12 11:16 PM (11 years, 2 months ago)

ya a little. good luck bro, its a pretty hard language to learn for the western ear.


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Re: Learning Mandarin Chinese [Re: RonaldFuckingPaul]
    #17358287 - 12/08/12 11:18 PM (11 years, 2 months ago)

I wouldn't bother unless you're actually going to China. Too much effort for too little gained.


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Re: Learning Mandarin Chinese [Re: Patito]
    #17358293 - 12/08/12 11:20 PM (11 years, 2 months ago)

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I wouldn't bother unless you're actually going to China. Too much effort for too little gained.




+1

if youre staying in america you'll want to learn spanish


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Re: Learning Mandarin Chinese [Re: RonaldFuckingPaul]
    #17358317 - 12/08/12 11:25 PM (11 years, 2 months ago)

i speak japanese fluently, but I'm looking into mandarin.  My company will pay for it because we own a factory in shenzhen.


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Re: Learning Mandarin Chinese [Re: starfire_xes]
    #17358372 - 12/08/12 11:39 PM (11 years, 2 months ago)

Easy to speak, very difficult to read/write. Same goes for japanese. Korean is easier to read/write because they dont use the chinese characters.


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Re: Learning Mandarin Chinese [Re: RonaldFuckingPaul]
    #17358380 - 12/08/12 11:43 PM (11 years, 2 months ago)

My chinese friend speaks mandarin. It seems like a pretty difficult language to learn to me and I can't really think of a situation where I would need to speak it either than:

a. Living in china
b. China takes over the world


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Re: Learning Mandarin Chinese [Re: RonaldFuckingPaul]
    #17358734 - 12/09/12 01:12 AM (11 years, 2 months ago)

If you can speak both English and Mandarin fluently, there's probably a job for you in the government.
As China grows in power and wealth, fluent speakers will be needed by the USA for all sorts of things.
My understanding is that for non-native speakers, it takes a lifetime to really become fluent, and even then a native speaker will still be able to tell that you aren't a native speaker.


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Re: Learning Mandarin Chinese [Re: abltsandwich]
    #17358746 - 12/09/12 01:15 AM (11 years, 2 months ago)

I can speak a little bit of Cantonese but no Mandarin.

I would personally learn Cantonese before Mandarin, but that's because of my own associations.


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Re: Learning Mandarin Chinese [Re: RonaldFuckingPaul]
    #17358776 - 12/09/12 01:20 AM (11 years, 2 months ago)

I've been thinking about studying it. I mean it just seems like the kind of language you'd have to know if you want to have a Competitive Advantage in the Job Marketplace of the Future.

It looks like a bitch to learn, though. They practically have a fucking pictographic script. You need to know thousands of characters just to be literate. And the pronunciation of words actually includes the tones of syllables. That's why it always has that wacky sing-songy sound. You have to speak that way or you won't be understood. You didn't hear it from me, but Chinese people are crazy.


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Re: Learning Mandarin Chinese [Re: Patito]
    #17358947 - 12/09/12 01:58 AM (11 years, 2 months ago)

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I wouldn't bother unless you're actually going to China. Too much effort for too little gained.




This is entirely untrue. There are nothing but benefits from learning another language, even if it is for fun.


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Re: Learning Mandarin Chinese [Re: Apollyphelion]
    #17358966 - 12/09/12 02:05 AM (11 years, 2 months ago)

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Patito said:
I wouldn't bother unless you're actually going to China. Too much effort for too little gained.




This is entirely untrue. There are nothing but benefits from learning another language, even if it is for fun.




I have a nasty feeling that it would serve me very well to know Mandarin by the time I'm doing postgraduate stuff. I'm interested in doing publicly funded scientific research. :suicide:

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Re: Learning Mandarin Chinese [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
    #17359200 - 12/09/12 04:16 AM (11 years, 2 months ago)

wut


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Re: Learning Mandarin Chinese [Re: abltsandwich]
    #17359231 - 12/09/12 04:31 AM (11 years, 2 months ago)

As far as I can tell, America's participation in science for science's sake is going down the shitter. Idiot tea partiers cite funding for research on crab shells as a typical example of big government waste. If these fuckwits have their way I'm going to have to move to China.


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