Most profitable foreign language?

[btmagnetw]

i know mandarin and can't understand a lick of cantonese. that being said, mandarin will be 100x more useful than cantonese.

[hanster]

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They are written differently, but spoken similarly. If you learn one, you can "get by" speaking with someone using another, at least that's how I understand it. If you know "Chinese" you are generally OK speaking with people in Cantonese, Mandarin and Taiwanese - they are all close enough. You may not be able to pick up every word but enough to make do.

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Nope. You can only partially communicate with everyone in Mandarin, but not the other two. Yes you can pick up tidbits of stuff but not enough to understand the whole context.

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has anyone who started learning a language in college ever learned it to an extent which they could speak and understand it well enough to make it profitable in their life? if so, plz tell me the story.

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My aunt's Caucasian husband learned Chinese in college and taught Mandarin Chinese in the military school in San Jose. Somehow he ended up with a house in Pebble Beach by the time he retired. He also speaks and writes better than me whose first language is Chinese [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[jedi]

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i know cantonese and can't understand much mandarin. that being said, mandarin will be 100x more useful than cantonese.

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[hlacheen]

Mandarin will be the most profitable. Just remember that is will also be much, much harder to learn than Spanish.

[Rearden]

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i know mandarin and can't understand a lick of cantonese. that being said, mandarin will be 100x more useful than cantonese.

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