Chinese

Why Chinese?

• Communication

  Chinese is spoken by over 1.3 billion people living in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and diasporic Chinese communities throughout Southeast Asia, North and South America, and Europe. Learning Chinese means to develop an ability to communicate directly with nearly one fifth population in the world. In addition, China is one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Chinese is an official U.N. language (along with Arabic, English, French, Russian, and Spanish). This emphasizes the relevance of learning Chinese in the world context.

• Cultural Understanding

  China is often considered as the longest continuous civilization and the Chinese the longest continuously used written language in the world. Traditional Chinese culture, from its philosophy, religion, literature to martial arts and cuisine, has tremendously influenced the East and Southeast Asia and greatly inspired the peoples in the other parts of the world. Learning Chinese language not only helps you to appreciate and understand this culture and its history, but also opens you a new perspective to look at other civilizations, including the one in which you are living.

• Career Opportunities

  China has the second largest economy in the world and plays a major role in the international affairs. Graduates with proficiency in Chinese are well positioned in the fields of business and finance, diplomacy and national security, science and technology, law and political science, philosophy and arts, tourism and translation, and much more. A good knowledge of Chinese will ensure you to join them for a successful career in future.

• The Relative Easiness

  Learning Chinese is not as difficult as many people thought. Chinese has an uncomplicated grammar. It has no verb conjugation and no noun declension. All these needs, of course, are perfectly satisfied in relatively simple ways. The basic sentence order is subject-verb-object, similar to English. A large number of the key words in modern Chinese, such as the terms for state and politics, health and medicine, science and technology, economics and business, even philosophy and literature, are formed a translation of English concepts. Although memorizing Chinese characters looks like a challenge to some of you, the Chinese ideographic writing system provides you with a unique visual beauty at the same time.

  All of the factors mentioned above will make your experience of learning Chinese pleasant and enjoyable.