It sounds like you ARE a target for this thread though [img]smile.gif[/img]
Ok so your school offered Japanese because Japan was an economic powerhouse? So the rationale was that you could go into business and speak to Japanese businessmen in their own language to save them learning English or to become an interpreter?
Heh, the only thing I know in japanese is how to count to 10 and the names of a few martial arts moves and instructions
Yeah Mandarin Chinese is spoken by much more people in China the Cantonese. So if the immigrants are Cantonese, it must mean that the richer people speak Cantonese? Most of my chinese friends here in the UK speak Cantonese too. They say that they two languages are quite similar though, almost like dialects of the same tongue.
I can understand the rationale behind learning a chinese language though, even if you don't plan on moving to Hong Kong or China - the Chinese are everywhere in the world, it is almost a world language like English - if you learn it, it's like an extra sixth of the world's population is opened up to you.
[ 07-07-2004, 07:19 PM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]