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by darkestkhan
5023 days ago
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I did stop and thought about the tone. There were more comments (quite) similar to yours, so it was more at random that reply was to your comment. Usefulness? Ability to communicate with more than 1.7 * 10^9 people is not enough for you? Also once you know Mandarin learning Japanese is much simpler. ...
for simplicity I will assume 364 days/year
0.5 * 364 * 13 = 182 * 13 = 2356, which is more than those 2200. It is generally advised to learn language in place where it is being used on day to day basis, no matter what language you are using. |
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In Most of places in the United States kids only go to school for 180 days per year.
>Usefulness? Ability to communicate with more than 1.7 * 10^9 people is not enough for you?
Where did you get 1.7 billion from, that's way too high.
Usefulness is relative. If I can communicate with a billion people on the other side of the world, is that more useful than being able to communicate with a few hundred million people whom I'm much more likely to contact?
>It is generally advised to learn language in place where it is being used on day to day basis, no matter what language you are using.
Yes, it makes it easier for all languages. But for category III languages, it is nearly impossible to become proficient without spending time in country.
>Also once you know Mandarin learning Japanese is much simpler.
Apart from a bit of the writing system, Chinese and Japanese are not similar. They are from 2 completely different language families. They are more distantly related than English and Russian.