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Learning Chinese to increase ones marketability
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IRStuff, you are right, of course,... just checked my W Simon beginners dictionary, Gan bei it is. Xie Xie.
JMW
JMW
Dang, that shows how old I am, I got up from the computer and went and got that book out of the bookcase instead of Googling.
JMW
JMW
Twoballcane
Mechanical
gung hay fat choy
well that is the extent of my Cantonese...
Tobalcane
"If you avoid failure, you also avoid success."
well that is the extent of my Cantonese...
Tobalcane
"If you avoid failure, you also avoid success."
I seem to recall a 'fad' of learning Japanese about 20 years ago based on the idea of Japanese industry etc. dominating world trade. Then the Japanese economy struggled through the 90's and on into the current mess.
So, is Chinese a better bet now than Japanese was then? Or is English already the de-facto international business language and there are other skills better to learn?
KENAT,
Have you reminded yourself of faq731-376 recently, or taken a look at posting policies: What is Engineering anyway: faq1088-1484
So, is Chinese a better bet now than Japanese was then? Or is English already the de-facto international business language and there are other skills better to learn?
KENAT,
Have you reminded yourself of faq731-376 recently, or taken a look at posting policies: What is Engineering anyway: faq1088-1484
Sure, the difference was that we were going to learn Japanese because we thought they would pretty much buy up all the US companies and we'd wind up working for the Japanese. And there really wasn't much in the way of outsourcing to Japan; even then, outsourcing, at least for electronics, was to Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, etc.
Currently, China isn't doing much in the way of buying US companies, perhaps a wise move on their part. But, we'd be learning Chinese so that we can buy stuff from they, or pay them to make stuff for us. A slight, but significant, difference.
TTFN
FAQ731-376
Currently, China isn't doing much in the way of buying US companies, perhaps a wise move on their part. But, we'd be learning Chinese so that we can buy stuff from they, or pay them to make stuff for us. A slight, but significant, difference.
TTFN
FAQ731-376
I studied mandarin for 4 years as a combined degree with my engineering, but have been put off by the number of engineers in china already. I've only visited for a holiday. I'd be keen to work there for a while, but not sure how to go about it.
ornerynorsk
Industrial
Maybe you could beat the western world to the punch and jump directly to Hindi.
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AeroNucDef
Aerospace
Learn Chinese Mandarin, It's very widely spoken.
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Probably a pitcher would be more like it. Unless we want to try something a bit more challenging, like Gao Liang?
Did I ever mention that my Gung Fu instructor drank a pint of Gao Liang, or Mao Tai, EVERY day? On his birthdays, there would be stacks of cases of the stuff given by his students. Fathered a kid at 75, lived to 85; worked for him...
I don't think my liver would be up to that...
TTFN
FAQ731-376
Did I ever mention that my Gung Fu instructor drank a pint of Gao Liang, or Mao Tai, EVERY day? On his birthdays, there would be stacks of cases of the stuff given by his students. Fathered a kid at 75, lived to 85; worked for him...
I don't think my liver would be up to that...
TTFN
FAQ731-376
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