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| FinalFan3 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5858 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English* | Message 17 of 18 10 December 2008 at 4:10am | IP Logged |
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Thanks for all the excellent comments and help guys!
I think I've finally settled on Japanese just because I've wanted to learn it for a long time already and my interest in Chinese started just recently. Learning either of these languages will take many years of work I know and I don't wanna waste doing so by loosing interest half way through. Also, I think I can imagine listening/reading to Japanese more through TV, video games etc. Now how to learn... going through kana at the moment. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| neil-flynn Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5969 days ago 116 posts - 117 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2, Mandarin | Message 18 of 18 13 December 2008 at 1:38pm | IP Logged |
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I was in the same situation in the summer. I have always been interested in learning japanese, but Mandarin is just so much more important in a business sense, and being an international economics student, i felt that i had to choose Mandarin. But once i started learning, i fell in love with the culture and i have no regrets about my choice. I would love to live and work there one day, which is an incentive to me.
But i am currently thinking about learning Japanese soon. I know about 600 hanzi, and i think that it could really help me to learn Japanese. But i want to have a decent level of Mandarin before i start. I have 18 months left before i graduate, and i am aiming to be fluent in Spanish and semi-fluent in Mandarin, so having a good knowledge of Japanese would be an added extra! From what i've read in this thread, i get the opinion that if you know one, you will find the other easy to learn. Therefore it seems to me that you should learn both at the same time as there will be many similarities. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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