Advice required: Shall I pursue for Chinese or French

[Al Bhatti]

Hello everyone,

I want to learn a new language and i am confused with choosing either French or Chinese.

I was planning to learn French at the Alliance Francaise, but some of my friends adviced me to pursue for Chinese instead.

I am currently thinking seriously about Chinese and within this week I will be visiting the recently opened (first) premises of the Confucius Institute in the country of my residence for more details about the fees structure and timings.

I am still a bit confused whether i should pursue for French or Chinese.

I dont have any plans for migrating to any country at the moment and will be residing in my current country of residence for the time being.

Looking forward to your suggestions and advices.

 

[SpArK]

I guess learning Chinese would be a better option. Its good for getting jobs more than French as opportunities are plenty in china unlike the recession hit France.

 

[BlackenTheSky]

But if you have plans to settle or visit china,then only go for it,or else try french out,it can help you if you go anywhere in europe in future whereas chinese can only stick you till china..

 

[Jungibaaz]

French would have been important 10 or 20 years ago. But now China is about to become a superpower, also millions of people speak "Chinese".

If you do choose "Chinese" will you learn Mandarin or Cantonese?

btw the reason I put quotations on Chinese is that Chinese is not a language, It's like saying Indian or Pakistani is a language...

 

[Markus]

Chinese certainly looks to be the future !!!

 

[JP-1]

Bro , the future civilization is chinese...even thousand and thousand of americans and europeen are lerning chinese...chinses is the best option!!

 

[Hyde]

Learn French as it is easy to learn....... chinese is too complicated and you will screw you mind if you are to learn fluent chinese

Learn French first and that will increase your passion of learning more languages and then go for Chinese after that

Chinese is a very rich language which is not easy to understand or learn

French is a sister language of English and since you speak english it is easy for you to learn French or Spanish

 

[sasuke]

French is easy to learn.

You can't learn Chinese with just a course ... it is one of the hardest languages.

 

[Zeluvaa]

I would suggest learn French

1) It is the easier of the two languages.

2) It is similar to English and thus much easier to learn than Mandarin or Cantonese. With French, the alphabets and the scripts are the same. However with Chinese languages, the writing script as well as alphabets are different, making it much more difficult.

3) Chinese would only be of much use if you plan on visiting China. French is spoken on the other hand in many more countries, including many in Europe, and Canada.

4) Most importantly, learn the language that would be useful to you. And right now I would say French and "Chinese" are both more important, with me leaning a bit towards French.

 

[Al Bhatti]

French is easy to learn.

You can't learn Chinese with just a course ... it is one of the hardest languages.

it will be 5 levels and each level will be for 4 to 5 months

 

[MAFIAN GOD]

I HAVE LEARNT A LITTLE FRENCH.
ITS A GOOD LANGUAGE.I LIKE IT.
DECIDE WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO IN FUTURE AND DECIDE WHICH LANGUAGE YOU WANT TO OPT.
BONJOUR
MERCI...

 

[Urbanized Greyhound]

If you need to pick up a foreign language ASAP for some reason I suggest that you go for french as it is most similar to english....Roman script and all.....however if you have business or academic interests in mind and have Hong Kong , Shanghai , Singapore ....any where inland China or south East asia in mind then learning Chinese becomes a great asset......however picking up their script can be quite tough ( given thousands of characters for words rather than the alphabet system prevalent in most written scripts)......

 

[Zeluvaa]

If you need an alternative language apart from French or "Chinese"

I would suggest Spanish. It is one of the most widely spoken language in the world in terms of number of speakers. It is also spoken in a huge number of countries.

Since you are living in Sharjah, I would say Arabic should be the first priority unless you already speak Arabic.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

French is really easy, like Spanish. If you want a challenge, Chinese or Arabic.

 

[Super Falcon]

bit of both or both i think if u have only option for one than i think chinese would be good becoz it is most spoken in the world at number 1