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Originally Posted by warakawa
is japanese worth learning give that japanese economy is in recession, and in 40 years time, it is predicted that japanese economy will not be in the top ten (even indonesia economy will be larger), will china will be the largest in the world.
chinese economy will take over japanese economy as the world's second in 2010.
is there really a point in learning japanese for one's career development?
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I went to school with 100 guys that were learning Japanese for economical reasons.
At graduation none of those guys had made it more than a year and a half into their Japanese studies, and all had dropped out.
The only people standing with me were those that had a genuine interest in Japan, living there, the language and the culture.
So if your only interest is "career development" by all means, start learning Mandarin. I hear it's a cake-walk.