Chinese is spoken by over 700 million native speakers, and once you get into the Second language speakers it hits a little of one billion. Now, seeing how Mandarin and the many other Chinese languages tend to be condensed into the China, why do people feel that it is a language to learn, unless you plan on moving there? Also, from the Business point of view, unless your working in the factories is doing small time business in China, they will speak English, and excellently well since must likely you will be dealing with highly educated people. You have to understand how conflicted I am, ALL of these choices seem equally good to me right now. = (Could I get different suggestions?

Languages come easy for me BUT I just can't make up my mind as to what to really learn for the first time! My childhood languages are Arabic and English, English being my best. I'm Egyptian. PLEASE help me; really, I just can't pick what to learn. You'd be doing me a huge favor. 1. German, for travel and possible academics and business, though it's not really needed. 2. Swedish to go along with German, because it's related and convenient since it's pretty much the same as Danish and Norwegian--and for travel! 3. Greek, for pleasure travel and an introduction to the classics. 4. Latin, for pleasure, education in Romance languages and an introduction to the classics. 5. Spanish, for pleasure travel and the sheer number of speakers. 6. Russian, because I like the sound, it's not hard for me, and it's useful. 7. Hebrew, because I'm very interested in Israel and Jews. 8. Mandarin, because it's so hard (probably wouldn't be for me) and is the rarest language to know for a job (I'm thinking of money here). 9. Hindi/Urdu, for the same reason. 10. Or should I start with a hobbyist artificial language like Esperanto or (better) Interlingua, to make rapid progress and get good grounding in the generic vocabulary of European languages?

The orginal language of this drama is in Mandarin online but I don't understand it that much so I want to watch it in Cantonese. Please help me to find it out. I would really appreciate your help. Thank you.

I think it’s kind of Chinese Greetings, but not quite sure. Here's the Romanization: chin ren jieh kuai luh

If i send an item hand written in Mandarin Chinese, would it reach the buyer? I sell on eBay, and for the first time ever, someone brought an item from me from china. The problem is that the order details is in Mandarin Chinese so i was wondering if i had written back the address in Mandarin Chinese, would the buyer receive the item... i don't have any printer to print out the writings so i don't really know what to do, but i was thinking of copying the address by rewriting it in Mandarin Chinese, which is something i have never done before. I tried to make contact with the buyer, but he hasn’t been responding to my mails, which means he probably doesn't understand English. I can easily cancel the transaction, but the item is worth $1 and think it’s worth the risk shipping it, plus its a great experience, just in-case someone buy something from me in eastern Asia. if there are any person with profound Mandarin Chinese knowledge who can translate the address, this is the address below 李洪均 义乌市新南乡水印新村九组13号 义乌市 浙江省 322000 China thanks for your answers

旁　or 旁边 that is the question in Chinese? I am a beginner Chinese learner. 旁 is not in the Chinese lesson where we are learning words like shang and li. I want to say "I am by the door" 我在门口边。 （This is how it is presented to us in the lesson. (actually 这个男人在大楼边.) OK, so I need to know the Chinese pinyin for 旁 (I used Japanese to write this word. It means "neighborhood" in Japanese.) And, I want to hear more about how to use this word in this situation. Thank you.

Isn't it that the widely spoken language is "Chinese"? What are the benefits in learning the English language?

I know all the daily Chinese words except for "for"! 4. I want to learn a 3rd language...?

Like if you were looking at something you had never seen before and you asked "What's that"? Many thanks!

7,090 70,090 700,090 I just want to know do you have to say zero (ling) in between the numbers in Mandarin language! Thanks so much!

How do you write "geo cache" in Chinese character?

Yup, I've started to study Mandarin and I'm wondering it is the same to study Mandarin and Japanese.

How do you write the name Michaela in Chinese language? I wanted to know how to write Chinese because i am drawing Chinese symbols and so far i only have water and earth and i wanted my name so i can write Chinese character that so if you guys have a link or you know how to please tell me! thanks!

I am working on a project in class about the Shang and Zhou dynasty and need help with Chinese. "i hate you. i hate this place. I don’t want to stay here. Please take me back home." any and all help with be greatly appreciated. Cheers!

現在的兒童看電視看得太多了。很多兒童一閑著沒事就坐在沙發上，看電視。兒童喜歡模仿…

I need teens Chinese songs that are popular now. I will use these teens Chinese songs for learning Chinese.

I wrote: 禮堂演的電影，演的多半是紀錄片。偶爾禮堂也演商業片。 It's supposed to say something that means: 'The movies shown in the auditorium are mostly documentaries. Occasionally, the auditorium also shows commercial movies. *my vocabulary is not too big; I'm mostly concerned with word order here.

American travel experts recently voted Newcastle one of the world's top ten party destinations, alongside the more obvious likes of Las Vegas and Rio de Janeiro, while two British surveys have cited the city as one of the best places in Britain to live and work.

I am currently working on a story which has got quite a few Chinese conversations in it. I need someone to translate a few English sentences into Chinese, but not Chinese pinyin (e.g. 'ni hao' and 'xie xie'). if possible, could my sentences be translated in the mainland tongue (I don’t know whether it is mandarin or Cantonese)? The sentences I need the Chinese translation are: "please help me. my head hurts." "give me food. I am hungry." "I don’t like you. Take me home." "I’m scared. take me home." "I hate you. I hate this place. I don’t want to stay here. Please take me back home." any and all help with be greatly appreciated. Cheers!

My Chinese teacher had us write down some things we wanted to learn in Chinese for Thanksgiving and when she gave me back my paper with the Chinese pinyin and characters on it, it was different from what I wrote so could you please tell me what this says exactly I tried a translator but it didn't work out........ *Chinese Pinyin with Different tones* gei (up and down tone) baba : (falling tone) xie (falling) xie (falling) ni (up and down) zong (up and down) zai (falling) na (falling) li (up and down) bang (flat) wo! (Up and down) kan (falling) lu (falling) xiang (falling)de (none) shi (rising) hou (falling) gen (flat) wo (up and down) yi (falling) qi (up and down) xiao! (falling) xie (falling) xie (falling) ni (up and down) hua (flat) shi (rising) jian (flat) gen (flat) wo (up and down) yi (falling) qi (up and down) kan (falling) jie (rising) mu (falling) he (rising) zuo (falling) yun (falling) dong! (falling) *Chinese Pinyin Without tones* gei baba: xie xie ni zong zai na li bang wo! kan lu xiang de shi hou gen wo yi qi xiao! xie xie ni hua shi jian gen wo yi qi! kan jie mu he zuo yun dong!