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Originally Posted by MMM
So if your only interest is "career development" by all means, start learning Mandarin. I hear it's a cake-walk.
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In a linguistic typology view, Mandarin is grammatically similar to English.
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Originally Posted by xyzone
korean is the one of the big 3 asian langs I wouldn't care about. Sorry, but it's just too small.
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But it is one of fastest growing Asian languages in Canada and USA. I've seen some people who used to take Japanese courses, now learning Korean independently. And believe it or not, the best non-Korean Korean speaker I met is a German-Canadian and he gave up learning Japanese for Korean.