How many people in the US are learning Chinese?
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I was told that the best language to learn right now is Chinese because China is become more and more important. My good friend is currently studying Chinese and I want to keep in touch with him when he graduates so he can help me if I need help!\n\nI'd like to learn Chinese one day, but I'm working on Korean right now :)
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Because there are over a billion chinese.
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I think you should speak the majority language of the country you are in...USA would be English, China would be Chinese, etc...
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in American schools... sure, those are correct.\n\nbut in the world, it's actually quite different. the languages with 100 million+ native speakers are:\n\n1. Chinese (850 million)\n2. Hindi (400 million), mainly spoken in India\n3. Spanish (390 million)\n4. English (354 million)... not a foreign language :)\n5. Arabic (272 million)\n6. Portuguese (210 million)\n7. Bengali (194 million), mainly spoken in India + Bangladesh\n8. Russian (145 million)\n9. Japanese (130 million)\n10. French (120 million)\n11. Punjabi (104 million), mainly spoken in India\n12. German (100 million)
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Yes there is a lot of places and people...\nI try some of this with success, hope it helps:\nhttp://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm\nhttp://www.mandarintools.com/\nwww.minmm.com
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mandarin??  hahaha\nno, the majority of chinese americans speak cantonese, because back during the days when america was seeing a large influx of chinese immigrants, they mostly came from the more southern regions of china.  here's a link about chinese language in general, dialects, and other fun stuff if you're interested:\n\nhttp://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/hbchilang-u.html
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I started teaching in China ten years ago, everywhere from BeiDa all the way down to rural schoolhouses.\nUnfortunately there are very few schools left in China, only businesses pretending to be schools.\nStill, if you want more info check out http://teflchina.org/ for the most comprehensive site on the subject.
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Great. Find a Fil-Chinese in the Philippines. You learn English more from a Filipino than any other.
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It very much depends on where you live.  Spainish-speakers are the second most populous group in the United States.  Personally, I would learn Spanish.
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There are over 60 million people practicing Falun gong in the United States, canada and europe
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yes ofcourse...Taiwanese poeple also speak Chinese...
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I am assuming you are talking about spoken languages and not programming languages.  In that case, Mandarin Chinese is the hardest to learn but the most beneficial.
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Around 9% of Americans are bilingual.
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Chinese Americans constitute one group of overseas Chinese and are a subgroup of Asian Americans. Numbering 2.7 million in 2000, Chinese Americans make up 22.4% of Asian Americans (larger than any other Asian American subgroup), and constitute nearly 1% of the United States as a whole.
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In Venezuela, my country, they are starting a program to teach Chinese to everyone interested, this is being ruled by the government.  Maybe you can check on this page http://www.gobiernoenlinea.ve/misc-view/index.pag
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Chinese.  1 billion+ people know how to speak it.  Many koreans and japanese, instead of taking English as their second language, are now taking Chinese.  China's economy is booming, and so currently is a great place for business.\n\nbut then again Wikipedia says:\n"Some assert that, after English, Spanish can now be considered the second most important language in the world (probably replacing even French), due to its increased usage in the United States, the high birth rate in most of the countries where it is official, the growing economies of the Spanish-speaking world, its influence on the global music market, and simply due to the broad number of areas on the Earth's surface that the language is spoken in."\n\nMe...I speak Chinese at home, English at school, and am taking AP Spanish right now.  =)
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Definitely Chinese (Mandarin, of course). Why ?\nIt's spoken by more than 1/3 of the world's population. \nChina is an emerging super-power. \nChina has been & will be US important economic partner.\nMandarin is spoken my most Asian countries (Mandarin is the national language of Singapore & Taiwan; it's also popular in Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, S. Korea...)\nIt's being implemented in some US schools districts\n(such as New york, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle...).\nIt's believed to be the language of the future.