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Originally Posted by JustinATTACK

They chose Mandarin?
Wtf, who would choose that over Japanese?

Lame highschool kids.

Living here, I know that Chinese is more widely spoken than Japanese. Richmond just seem to have more Chinese immigrants than say Korean, Japanese, or Vietnamese, even though they do exist here of course. Taking Chinese isn't too surprising, especially since it's a widley used business language, just like English.

That aside, when I was in high school, Japanese wasn't even an option. They had it, but not enough students took it, so they got rid of the class. They teach it now, though.

The colleges around me didn't teach Japanese either. Virginia Commonwealth University still doesn't teach and the main community college here teaches stuff like Hebrew, Arabic, and Chinese (aside from the usual, Spanish, French, etc.), but no Japanese. Crazy, right?

UoR teaches Japanese now and do exchanges, so that's cool, but still seems that Chinese would come first around here.