That's why people have their kids learn it, that's why they go and buy "a Rosetta Stone", as they say, and struggle through it. They think it's going to help them in a material way (a better job, more money, etc.).
When I said "study the language for its own sake", of course that would include the literature. It takes longer and requires a greater investment of time, though, because the number of characters one needs is much higher (you need to really know those 7500 characters, as opposed to the 2500 that will allow you to read newspapers, etc.).
When I said "study the language for its own sake", of course that would include the literature. It takes longer and requires a greater investment of time, though, because the number of characters one needs is much higher (you need to really know those 7500 characters, as opposed to the 2500 that will allow you to read newspapers, etc.).
I was just yanking your chain there a it
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Why You Don't Want to Study Mandarin
- 16/09/2012 05:36:18 PM
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Nothing about the literature? 
- 16/09/2012 07:22:00 PM
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- 16/09/2012 07:22:00 PM
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This was meant to address the movement to learn Mandarin based on its "usefulness".
- 16/09/2012 11:20:13 PM
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I know
- 17/09/2012 02:33:51 AM
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Re: Nothing about the literature?
- 17/09/2012 01:14:05 AM
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- 17/09/2012 01:14:05 AM
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*applauds* That was interesting, insightful, and paradoxically inspiring. Thank you. 
*NM*
- 16/09/2012 10:29:08 PM
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*NM*
- 16/09/2012 10:29:08 PM
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