Comments on: Don’t stay in China for the sake of staying in China http://yolearnchinese.com/archives/dont-stay-in-china-for-the-sake-of-staying-in-china Motivation and Strategies to learn Chinese for busy people Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:22:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Aremonus http://yolearnchinese.com/archives/dont-stay-in-china-for-the-sake-of-staying-in-china/comment-page-1#comment-5873 Aremonus Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:50:32 +0000 http://yolearnchinese.com/?p=438#comment-5873 Well I managed to drain some financial value from my Chinese skill quite easily - for example, I could finde some egineers who work for us for no more than 6000 kuai (600€) per month - an European CAD constructer costs for about 10 times more for the same work. Furthermore I am planning to do some investments in China but I froze those plans recently, as Chinese government is making foreign investments more and more difficult and less and less beneficial. Nevertheless, it's ture what Junjie claims: Chinese alone doesnt get you any further - neither does English nor German. Languages are just one of hopefully many diffrent skills that makes one useful. If someone introduces himself to our company like: "Hey, I am XX, I know Chinese!" We'll answer: "That's nice - what can you do?" This kind of people leaves the office usually fairly fast. But if someone introduces himself like: "Hey, I'm XX, I studied engineering.... and I also know Chinese fluently" He'll get the job immediately, including the chance to become leader of the Asian market. Well I managed to drain some financial value from my Chinese skill quite easily – for example, I could finde some egineers who work for us for no more than 6000 kuai (600€) per month – an European CAD constructer costs for about 10 times more for the same work.
Furthermore I am planning to do some investments in China but I froze those plans recently, as Chinese government is making foreign investments more and more difficult and less and less beneficial.

Nevertheless, it’s ture what Junjie claims: Chinese alone doesnt get you any further – neither does English nor German. Languages are just one of hopefully many diffrent skills that makes one useful. If someone introduces himself to our company like: “Hey, I am XX, I know Chinese!” We’ll answer: “That’s nice – what can you do?”
This kind of people leaves the office usually fairly fast.
But if someone introduces himself like: “Hey, I’m XX, I studied engineering…. and I also know Chinese fluently” He’ll get the job immediately, including the chance to become leader of the Asian market.

]]> By: Hendrik http://yolearnchinese.com/archives/dont-stay-in-china-for-the-sake-of-staying-in-china/comment-page-1#comment-5804 Hendrik Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:31:37 +0000 http://yolearnchinese.com/?p=438#comment-5804 >> and noone should expect a big commercial dividend from that. Absolutely. Some months ago I thought I could pull a lot of commercial value from Chinese. But I recently realised that this is not true really. This article are basically my realizations. I guess I should act accordingly now. Chinese still has a lot of value for my private life. >> and noone should expect a big commercial dividend from that.

Absolutely. Some months ago I thought I could pull a lot of commercial value from Chinese. But I recently realised that this is not true really. This article are basically my realizations. I guess I should act accordingly now. Chinese still has a lot of value for my private life.

]]> By: justrecently http://yolearnchinese.com/archives/dont-stay-in-china-for-the-sake-of-staying-in-china/comment-page-1#comment-5796 justrecently Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:02:27 +0000 http://yolearnchinese.com/?p=438#comment-5796 I wanted to add one <b>more</b> point, that is. I wanted to add one more point, that is.

]]> By: justrecently http://yolearnchinese.com/archives/dont-stay-in-china-for-the-sake-of-staying-in-china/comment-page-1#comment-5795 justrecently Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:01:01 +0000 http://yolearnchinese.com/?p=438#comment-5795 "Use Chinese as a skill to improve, but don’t be dependant on it." This looks true. I'd just like to add one point in <b>favor</b> of learning Chinese. Apart from cracking the meaning of more complicated Chinese texts and excercising perseverance in doing so, the language skills can broaden our horizons. Language is connected with thoughts and attitudes after all - stuff like "zuo, zuo, zuo" (take a seat) or "chi, chi, chi, chi ge yan" (eat a cigarette :-)) express a different kind of easiness and sense of convenience than English or German. But it does take time to learn, and noone should expect a big commercial dividend from that. “Use Chinese as a skill to improve, but don’t be dependant on it.”
This looks true. I’d just like to add one point in favor of learning Chinese. Apart from cracking the meaning of more complicated Chinese texts and excercising perseverance in doing so, the language skills can broaden our horizons. Language is connected with thoughts and attitudes after all – stuff like “zuo, zuo, zuo” (take a seat) or “chi, chi, chi, chi ge yan” (eat a cigarette :-) ) express a different kind of easiness and sense of convenience than English or German. But it does take time to learn, and noone should expect a big commercial dividend from that.

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