Learn Chinese?
American here, moving up the exec ladder. I kept hearing how China was a house of cards, so it wasn't worth learning Mandarin. They just keep expanding their middle class and global relevance.
I'm thinking of learning Mandarin to position for that shift continuing the next few decades. Good idea or waste of time?
Inb4 demoralization thread or shalom. I know who owned the slave ships.
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It's definitely a good idea. I can even teach you a word or two.
If you have the time, it sure wouldn't hurt to learn some Mandarin. From a business perspective, it can only open more paths for you if you want to make it easier to conduct business with China as its economy continues to grow.
It's probably hard as fuck. As for them hard to learn european languages.
If you’re going to do it, start with a program like Remembering the Hanzi by Heisig. It might seem boring and a little silly to learn only the meanings of the characters and how to draw them (i.e., not learning actual words or even how to pronounce them), but I cannot tell you how much it will help in your studies. You will learn 5x faster once you start grammar studies than someone who just starts with an Introduction to Chinese book.
Might be difficult to start phonetically for beginners who aren't used to tonal languages.
Mandarin utilizes 4 tone sounds for every character, which changes its meaning when paired with other characters to create phrases.
There can be many characters that share the same sound+tone, which in speech, can be discerned through the context in which they are spoken.
My thoughts. More likely to be brought in with leadership if they expand business into China. Get visibility, make connections.
Someone post the picture, I can’t because I am on my phone
You know the one.
>I can even teach you a word or two.
Yes, we're all aware Chang.
>HAHA CHINA NUMBA ONE
It's really not, its just a world image.
Lol what picture Japanbro? My first thought was Korea bringing the heat vs Japan cap
I will check it out, thank you.
you will never move up the chain to anything worthwhile because you are dumb as fuck even asking this
Sounds like the play is to start romancing a local Chinese immigrant.
Too late
yeah learn to speak insect
so you can be like the insects
and make this world an insectoid world
good job OP
ya fuckin idiot
unironically yes. They are who controls the future , now, not that I like it or want it but it's objective reality at this point
If this thread is still up in about 30 minutes I'll give you a pic about one guy's experience working in China. From experience, I can say it's highly valid.
What I'll tell you though if, culturally you are getting into one of the most morally reprehensible societies if you intend to work in or with Mainland China. Taiwan is a different story.
Working in China is miserable. But it is advancing at a much faster pace than the US and they hate niggers there. No use paying taxes to the Jews running america
I'll keep it alive. I have friends in Taiwan that it would be pretty cool to surprise with this anyway.
Jews haven't put their claws in their banks yet?
>I'm thinking of learning Mandarin to position for that shift continuing the next few decades. Good idea or waste of time?
Start here:
zein.se
Remind yourself every day they are not insects.
I mean, Mandarin is widely spoken in Taiwan too (no surprise given their history), with slight accent differences depending on the region you're in.
From OP's question in regards to learning Mandarin, it would open up paths for him in Taiwan as well, along with other countries that have considerable Mandarin-speaking populations, like Singapore.
Unless you're of Chinese origin, Chinese mainlanders would prefer for you to not know how to speak Mandarin. When you engage in business with them, they like to huddle and talk in Chinese among themselves without you knowing what they're saying. Believe me, they're more transparent that way. Don't learn Chinese if you wish to do business with them.
Languages are for failures desu.
You speak Engrish faggot.
Why learn gookspeak when you could learn engineering? Empower yourself, and the body of knowledge in your native language.
Instead of wasting resources trying to translate shit the top dog does, be the top dog. Much more efficient
dont you have to be just a white guy, a token guy so others see how they have whiteys, in order to be successful in china no matter the industry
its a pretty hard language to learn, but why not? its a pleasant surprise to encounter a mandarin speaking westerner.
The only people who thought China was a "house of cards" are people who have been brainwashed with jewish economics.
> to position for that shift continuing the next few decades
It's worth it.
Regardless whether China would implode & balkanise, or go through somewhat peaceful transition to a transparent & accountable system, Mandarin will remain lingua franca in the region like Russian does in Central Asia.
However, regardless how well you learn to speak it, the Chinese will never trust you enough to take you inside their inner circles.
lol no
Trump tried to force China to turn over control of their state banks under the terms of his proposed trade deal and they laughed in his face and practically killed the US basedbean industry overnight.
Chinese will always hire Chinese over American. American will always hire Chinese over American. It doesn't matter if you learn Chinese.
Here's that picture. His experiences are 100% valid and believable. However, learning Mandarin is still interesting from a personal perspective. Just be ready for the scum you're going to be dealing with if you are doing it only for business reasons.
I assume he means the infamous business experiences by an American poster who imported industrial quality steel out of China.
The poster and his Russian associates that he tried to warn about lost a lot of money.
I learned mandarin and I’m still a neet
>However, regardless how well you learn to speak it, the Chinese will never trust you enough to take you inside their inner circles.
Quoted for emphasis and correctness.