Mandarin Chinese Zach Franxman, Blake Gay

Five reasons why we want to learn Mandarin. 1)We want to learn something other than Spanish. 2)China own all of our debt. 3)Chinese sounds really cool to learn. 4)It is the most widely spoken language in the world. 5)It looks really good on a college application.

Where is it spoken It is spoken in only half of China. But 1 billon people world wide speak it so it makes it the most widely spoken language in the world.

Chinese Culture The Chinese are very good with manners cause they have all kinds of etiquette like business appointments are necessary if you don’t have one their will not be a meeting, gift giving do not give scissors, knives or other cutting utensils as they indicate the severing of the relationship, and meeting etiquette many Chinese will look towards the ground when greeting someone. Also in China your facial expression represents ‘honor’, ‘good reputation’, or ‘respect’. And lastly Chinese celebrate new year and it is a very big thing and it is very important to them.

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