There are many reasons! Chinese is the language of Nearly 1/4 of the World's Population and speakers of Chinese not only live all over the world in China, Taiwan, and Singapore, but also throughout Southeast Asia। And that doesn’t include the large Chinese communities in most western countries.! This has meant that Chinese is now the most spoken language in the world!
Why else? Well learning Chinese is a wonderful and exciting experience through which you can understand a different culture। Chinese has a unique ideographic writing system, which provides visual comprehensibility. The grammatical structure of Chinese is logical, pragmatic and relates to the particular way of Chinese thinking. Knowledge of the written language opens up the culture of one of the world's oldest civilizations.
And don’t forget! China currently boasts the fastest growing economy in the world and many people feel that they will be the biggest global market in the twenty-first century। Proficient speakers of Chinese Mandarin will find jobs in various fields such as business, government, international relations, information technology, tourism, education, translation and much, much more.
Of all foreign languages in the British school and university system Chinese is quickly showing itself to be the replacement of other languages. For instance, this was published in the BBC… ‘British exports to the country are expected to quadruple by the end of the decade and the government wants every school, college and university to be twinned with an equivalent in China within the next five years’
