Why do you want to learn mandarin? If you want to eventually travel across china & taiwan, speak with the locals and understand the culture then that sounds pretty good to me.
Otherwise you mentioned japanese and russian, which one do you think you would enjoy learning more? I personnally would choose japanese, both for travel and business purposes.
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Asher Phillips
Ethan Butler
The regional dialect in China are so different that native people can barely understand each other. It's the reason the government always issues written directives. See Shanghainese
Jonathan Cook
Don't, if you're gonna learn a language, pick up Spanish or a South East Asian language.
China will crumble and Russia has drunk themselves to death.
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Elijah Allen
but this is a english board
Andrew Mitchell
>Seriously, I lived in the States for about a year. You will constantly be cheated and ripped off. People complain about the Trump but the fact is Burgerland have been blatantly stealing from the world for decades. I hope they fucking implode but they are probably going to start a fucking war
Robert Jones
They do make software than can translate languages for you. Probably not reliable enough yet, but how many more years before it becomes reliable? Compare that with how long it would take you to learn Mandarin, and the time you lost having learned Mandarin that could have been spent learning something else.
Benjamin Johnson
OP here.
My objective to learn a new language is purely business related and to make myself worth more.
Should I aim for japanese?