Over the past few months every other person we bump into is either learning Chinese or is advising us to do so. Where there are many of us who have done our research on how beneficial the language is to an individual, there are many who are-if not clueless, pretty unsure of why it's such a big deal now. If you’re confused on whether or not to give in to the peer pressure I'm sure you’ll be able to make a wise decision by the end of this article.
1. Most spoken language in the world-meaning you can communicate with almost half the human population
China is the most densely populated country in the world with over 1.4 billion people. Mandarin is spoken by almost one billion people. It is the most widely spoken language in the world. One out of five people in the world is Chinese. Chinese is spoken in a lot of other countries like Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, The Philippines, and Mongolia.
2. China is America’s Largest Trading Partner
China is leading in business and knowing Chinese can give you an edge over other competitors and candidate at a job interview or anywhere! Knowing Chinese will allow students to compete effectively in the business environment of the future.
3. An Emerging Superpower
From over the past decade china is verging towards becoming the next superpower of the world, china is playing a major role in world’s international affairs and is creating many job opportunities for a lot of countries, where knowing Chinese can be the reason you earn your bread and butter.
4. Appreciation of Chinese Culture and history
The Chinese civilization is one of the oldest and most cultured. Understanding this could help in character development, and build a better personality eventually.
5. Learning a Second Language can be beneficial
Learning a second language is pretty beneficial on its own, but learning a language says a lot about your personality, it shows that the individual possesses characteristics such as critical thinking, determination and creative thinking skills because Chinese is pretty hard to learn.
6. Job opportunities
Pakistan-china friendship is no joke, with how close the two countries are its no lie that they will be creating many employment opportunities for the citizens of each nation in the near future like the talk of Bank of China that will definitely employ the skills of many Pakistanis that can also speak Chinese
7. Largest Exporter
China is the largest exporter which mean it's looking for overseas business. Learning their language is definitely the smartest thing to do if you understand they’ll be running the world in a matter of time.
8. Helps when looking for a job abroad
Knowing Pakistanis, most of us want to either study or have some work experience outside the country. Having command over the world’s most spoken language could make you cut out for the job and definitely make your CV much more attractive than how it is at the moment!
A May 2006 Newsweek article stated that “In U.S. homes, Chinese has eclipsed French, German and Italian and become the third most commonly spoken language after English and Spanish”
China is the largest exporter in the world and has set its roots deep inside each and every country which is probably why admissions at basic chinese learning institutes are skyrocketing. Even though knowing you’re own tongue is the best, leaning more languages come handy when you least expect them to.
Hope this was helpful in getting over the dilemma of whether or not you should learn the language! Let us know what you think, we'd love to hear from you!
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