why is the chinese language gaining popukarity , why are more students in the us opting to learn chinese?
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Because they recognize China as a business opportunity. You can sell American services and goods to China if you speak chinese!
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Hi Jildikoo,\n  Besides english, I would strongly suggest learning chinese as China is quickly becoming the largest trading partner to many countries on the planet. My guess is that anyone who is fluent in chinese in the next 5-10 years can write their own paycheck. A business background would enhance that paycheck considerably. Make no mistake about, China will be the next superpower within the next 15-20 years. My second language would probably be Indian for pretty much the same reasons. In both cases choose the most spoken dialect.\n As for learning Russian, I can definately recommend it if your looking to score some of those tall hot looking blonde Russian babes and ordering Beluga caviar and vodka all night long. \nпозволяет стороне (lets party in Russian)
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wow! i just noticed that on my professor!! class: EWS the chinese in America.. i was just itching to ask him ... i hope you get a real answer, now im terribly curious.
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Spanish, not only for the reasons given by others, but for two others: it's a Latin language (so you have a good basis for French, Italian, etc.) and it's logical in its spelling (unlike French, which is very arbitrary.) If you're learning a language as a start towards learning more and to use in the US and Europe, it seems like the obvious choice.\n\nIf on the other hand, you want a mental challenge, Mandarin is so unlike any Western language in syntax, tones, etc. that you'll 'stretch' your mind a great deal. It will also prove increasingly useful as China moves more and more to a capitalist model.
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I think I would show the statistics for "people studying Chinese in the US is drastically on the rise" and information on the WTO.  I would spell out US (United States), WTO (World Trade Organization), and HK (Hong Kong).  Why do you think the trend toward learning Chinese, French, or German is on the rise among young Chinese Americans?  There are a few points you could elaborate upon with statistics or background information.
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Well,the Chinese save up more of their income and they also invest more of their money into education,so...it goes without saying,China is the next America.
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yes,i am a chinese people!really!\ngo to :www.betterchinese.com\nand it will teach you chinese!\ngood luck
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Spanish is a growing language in the United States. Those who have latino(s) heritage are growing in great numbers and will outnumber any other minority group soon. \n\nIn order to accomodate this growing population, bilinugal "aids" have been added. This group may help decide who our future leaders will be. \n\nAs for learning a new language- it's fun and and it's worthwhile. Americans are so egocentric. Citizens in other countries know more than one language and are able to get along just fine. \n\nPara mi, me gusta much espanol. Estudio en la escuela secondara y en la universidad. \n\nComprende?
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If woks really have become as popular as you claim, then it is only because white people have advanced from Chinese takeaways through ready-made Chinese meals to cooking Chinese food for themselves. This site contains all you really need to know about woks.\nhttp://chinesefood.about.com/library/weekly/aa022899.htm
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The way things are looking these days, Chinese will be in big demand.
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Chinese (汉语/漢語, Pinyin: Hànyǔ; 华语/華語, Huáyǔ; or 中文, Zhōngwén) is a language (or language family) that forms part of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. About one-fifth of the people in the world speak some form of Chinese as their native language.\n\nIn general, all varieties of Chinese are tonal and analytic. However, Chinese is also distinguished for a high level of internal diversity. Regional variation between different variants/dialects is comparable in many respects to the Romance language family; many variants of spoken Chinese are different enough to be mutually incomprehensible. There are between six and twelve main regional groups of Chinese (depending on classification scheme), of which the most populous by far is Mandarin (c. 800 million), followed by Wu (c. 90 million), and Cantonese (c. 80 million). The identification of the varieties of Chinese as "languages" or "dialects" is a controversial issue. If Chinese is classified as a single language rather than a group of languages, it has the largest number of speakers in the world; if not, Mandarin still holds that title, with Wu and Cantonese following at tenth and sixteenth places respectively.\n\nThe standardized form of spoken Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect, a member of the Mandarin group; it is described in the article "Standard Mandarin." Standard Mandarin is the official language of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China or Taiwan, as well as one of four official languages of Singapore (together with English, Malay, and Tamil). Chinese—de facto, Standard Mandarin—is one of the six official languages of the United Nations (alongside English, Arabic, French, Russian, and Spanish). Spoken in the form of Standard Cantonese, Chinese is one of the official languages of Hong Kong (together with English) and of Macau (together with Portuguese).\n\nVernacular Chinese, which is most closely based on the Mandarin group, is the standardized written language used by speakers of all Chinese spoken variants. Some other variants, including Cantonese and Minnan, have also developed written forms that correspond more closely to the spoken form of those variants, though these are used predominantly in informal contexts.
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The Chinese are becoming a big threat to us militarily, economically and technoligically speaking. I just read in the news that the US Gov't gave the highest number of visas to China...Why? To get on their good side of course! The Chinese gov't has been building their military up big prompting the US to also spend more on defence. We are making new jet fighters and destroyers. Once again, we may find ourselves in an arms race like with Russia in the 80's.
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dont most chinese learn it from their family?
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Mandarin Chinese is the most prevalent language.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_speakers
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Hmmm I can speak of french as I'm french. It's said to be a quite hard language and it really is, lots of exceptions in grammar, many problems of tenses. Well it's also known as a beautiful language and maybe it comes from the fact it's difficult.\nSpanish is close to french I think complexity is quite the same or slightly easier (I've learned it for 3 years). It's a nice language that sounds good, like there's sun in their language :)\nChinese is much more simple regarding tenses and grammar (my girlfriend is chinese) but one very hard thing is they have sounds we don't, they make difference between two sounds just from the tone where we don't really hear any difference, I think it's a question of habit. Of course the writing is also harder, there's a way to write with normal letters too...\n\nRegarding usefulness I think chinese is a language that will be interesting in the few next years as China is opening more, french can be interesting too and I think french can provide a better population coverage than spanish if you choose between those two...\n\nSo good luck in your learning and I hope I provided interesting inofmrations to guide you in your choice :)
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About a quarter of Californians speak mainly Spanish at home.\n\nFrom Wikipedia:\n"As of 2000, 60.5% of California residents age 5 and older speak English at home and 25.8% speak Spanish. Chinese is the third most spoken language at 2.6%, followed by Tagalog at 2.0% and Vietnamese at 1.3%."\n\nThis should give you an idea of how many Californians are at least inclined to speak Spanish when given the option.
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Who's refusing?  I love studying languages!  However, should we alow a secondary language to be official?  I don't think that's necessary.  We're creating a new language with the Spanglish and all the other wonderful linguistic creativity that is alive & well in the US