• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Taiwanese Secrets Travel Guide

  • About
  • Contact Me
  • What’s New
  • Facebook
  • Pizza Rock
MENUMENU
  • Home
  • What’s New
  • About Taiwan
    • Facts About Taiwan
    • Culture
      • Ancient Chinese Things
      • Taiwanese Culture
      • Language
      • Martial Arts
      • Music
    • Festivals
    • Food
      • Snacks & Fast Food Guide
  • Travel Info
    • 17 Best Road Trips in Taiwan
    • Accommodation
    • Transportation
      • Transport in Taiwan
      • High Speed Rail
      • Train
      • Bus
      • Rent a Car
      • Scooter & Motorcycle
      • Hitchhiking
    • Hiking Guide
    • Scooter / Motorcycle Travel
    • Surfing in Taiwan
    • Nightlife in Taiwan
    • Important Links!
  • Taipei
    • Introduction to Taipei
    • Best Area to Stay in Taipei
    • Getting Around
      • MRT (metro) Guide
    • Attractions
      • Dihua Street
      • Museums, Memorials, Historical Buildings
      • Taipei 101
      • Temples
    • Shopping in Taipei
  • North
    • Hsinchu
    • Keelung
    • Jiufen
    • Long Dong
    • Pinglin
    • Taian Hot Spring
    • Taoyuan
    • Wulai
    • Yangmingshan National Park
  • East
    • Chenggong
    • Donghe
    • Douli
    • Dulan
    • Hualien
    • Fulong
    • Highway 11
    • Jiaoxi
    • Taroko Gorge
      • Hiking in Taroko
      • Taroko Camping
      • Taipei to Taroko
    • Taitung
    • Tianxiang
    • Yilan
  • Central
    • Alishan
    • Baguashan
    • Changhua
    • Cingjing Farm
    • Mt. Hehuan (Hehuanshan)
    • Huisun Forest
    • Lugang
    • Nantou County
    • Sun Moon Lake
    • Taichung City
      • Attractions | Things to Do
      • Cafes
      • Getting There and Away
      • Hiking
      • Nightlife
      • Parks and Canals | Walking Guide
      • Restaurants
    • Zhongxing New Village
  • South
    • Chiayi
    • Donggang
    • Kaohsiung
    • Kenting
      • Best of Kenting
      • Restaurants and Cafes
      • Baisha Beach
      • Fengchuisha
      • Hengchun
      • Houwan (Back Bay)
      • Jialeshui
      • Manzhou
      • Nightlife
      • Nanwan (South Bay)
      • Sail Rock
      • Snorkeling in Kenting
      • Surfing in Kenting
      • Taipei to Kenting
      • Pizza Rock Kenting
      • Wild East Guesthouse
      • Xiaowan (Little Bay)
      • Wanlitong
    • Maolin
    • Tainan
  • Islands
    • Green Island (Ludao)
    • Kinmen Island
    • Matsu Island
    • Orchid Island (Lanyu)
    • Penghu
    • Xiao Liuqiu (Lamay Island)
  • Pictures
    • Hualien Gallery
    • Chinese Dragons Gallery
    • Dangki | Jitong
    • Faces of Taiwan | Portraits
  • About
    • Contact Me

11 Reasons Why You Should Study Chinese

With well more than a billion speakers around the world, Chinese language, also known as Mandarin, is the most widely spoken language on earth. As China has grown in power over the past several decades, there has been a big push worldwide for foreigners to study Chinese.

study chinese

Chinese classes have cropped up in colleges and secondary schools around the world and, each year, thousands of people flock to Taiwan and China to travel, teach and hone their language skills. In case you need any more motivation than that, here are 11 good reasons why you should study Chinese.

Table of Contents

  • 1- Boost your brainpower
  • 2- Travel to exotic places
  • 3- One of the world’s biggest languages
  • 4- Try amazing food
  • 5- A warm and welcoming culture
  • 6- Become more artistic
  • 7- Easy to get started
  • 8- Economically important
  • 9- Ancient culture
  • 10- Do business
  • 11- A new outlook on life
    • More articles about Mandarin Chinese:

1- Boost your brainpower

Chinese is a tonal language, meaning that the word definitions can change based on intonation. Much like music, Chinese language requires speakers to engage the right and sides of their brains, and studies have shown that Mandarin speakers do use both sides of their brains!

2- Travel to exotic places

Mandarin language is spoken in lots of places, from Beijing to Singapore. If you study Chinese, you can travel all over East and Southeast Asia, as well as other parts of the world and communicate with Chinese people.

ts on fb

Click here to follow us on facebook!

3- One of the world’s biggest languages

Around one-fifth of the entire world’s population speaks Chinese as a native language! Combine that with the number of non-native speakers that can speak or understand Chinese and you’ve got a whole lot of the world covered.

4- Try amazing food

Chinese cuisine is one of the most beloved and richest food traditions on earth, and studying Chinese will help you uncover amazing dishes. Trying new restaurants and discovering new flavors has always been my favorite thing to do in Taiwan!

eating chinese noodles

5- A warm and welcoming culture

Chinese people are notoriously warm and welcoming, and whether you’re in Taiwan or Malaysia, you will encounter a wonderful culture through Chinese language.

6- Become more artistic

Chinese is written using iconographic characters rather than letters. These characters developed out of cave paintings and pictures and require an incredible amount of artistic skill to be written.

7- Easy to get started

Despite what you might’ve heard, Chinese has a shallow learning curve, meaning that it’s very easy to get started speaking basic Chinese after just a few weeks of learning!

8- Economically important

The sheer numbers of people that speak Chinese make it an economically important language, but combine that with the prowess of Chinese speaking countries, such as Singapore, Taiwan and China itself, and you can see how economically important a language it is.

9- Ancient culture

If you learn to read Chinese, you will be able to delve into one of the world’s most ancient cultures through its strong literary and cultural traditions.

10- Do business

Many companies trade with Taiwan and China nowadays, so speaking Chinese can be a distinct advantage to doing business in Asia.

11- A new outlook on life

Studies have proven that Chinese speakers think about things differently than others. The Chinese have different concepts of time, space and history that can only be understood through the intricate details of Mandarin language. The grammatical structure, word order and even the choices of phrases and questions all help inform the Chinese outlook on life!


More articles about Mandarin Chinese:

Find out why Taiwan is the best place in the world to study Mandarin Chinese and understand why stydying Chinese is EASY!

How many people speak Mandarin Chinese in the world? Where is Mandarin spoken? How is this wonderful Asian language written? How many Chinese characters are there? Get answers now! Check out my Facts About Mandarin Chinese page…

Are you looking for a Chinese language school in Taiwan? See why I recommend TLI (the Taipei Language Institute) in Taichung City, in the central part of Taiwan. You can study Chinese in a group class for as little as NT5000 (around USD180) per month at TLI. Read about learning Chinese in Taiwan at TLI!

Return from 11 Reasons Why You Should Study Chinese to
Study Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan!

Filed Under: Studying Chinese

Back to Top

Primary Sidebar

Hello, I’m Ugo

ugo taiwanese secrets websiteI’m the weirdo behind this site. I’ve been living in Taiwan since 2000, so basically I’ve spent half my life here. I have a big passion for everything Formosa and I’ve been working on this website since 2008 to share the beauty of Taiwan with the world! Read more about me.

pizza rock taiwan logo
Read about my precious baby: Pizza Rock, a company I started in 2011.

Browse by Topic

Attraction Beaches Cafe Changhua Chiayi Cultural Destination Culture Directory Drinking Festival Food Guesthouse Hiking Hot-Spring Hotel Hsinchu Hualien Itinerary Kaohsiung Kenting Manzhou Miaoli Mountains Nantou National Park Nature New Taipei City Nightlife Orchid Island Outdoor Pingtung Pingtung County Restaurant Seaside Shopping Surfing Taichung Tainan Taipei Taitung Taoyuan Taroko Temple Transportation Yilan

Categories

  • Accommodation
  • Accommodation in Taipei
  • Ancient Chinese Things
  • Central Taiwan
  • Chinese Culture
  • East Taiwan
  • Facts About Taiwan
  • Living
  • North Taiwan
  • Pictures of Taiwan
  • Pizza Rock
  • South Taiwan
  • Studying Chinese
  • Taichung
  • Taipei
  • Taiwanese Culture
  • The Islands
  • Travel Info
  • Uncategorized
  • Home
  • Contact Me
  • Important Links!
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and Conditions

Copyright© 2023·Taiwanese Secrets

 

Loading Comments...