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No more than French or Russian or Swahili. It would only be relevant if the business case demands Chinese language skill.
by yuppie_scum 5y ago
No more than French or Russian or Swahili. It would only be relevant if the business case demands Chinese language skill.
- volvarine 5y agoBut what about the immense Chinese internet and all of its resources,like Chinese forums and research papers written in Chinese?
- sircastor 5y agoThe same could be said for any language. For all its nationalism and patriotism, China is not interested (at least as far as I can tell) in being isolated. Translations of those papers will be distributed, automatic translations can be generated. If you want to work in China, there’s probably a benefit to learning Mandarin or Cantonese. But I don’t think there’s some explicit advantage that’ll come from learning the language explicitly.