Why Learn Chinese?

There are many reasons!

• To equip your kids for future opportunities by giving them the Chinese Advantage because economists predict that Chinese economy will become the world's largest in the 21^st century.
• Chinese culture is over 5000 years old.  By learning the Chinese language you will learn another culture and another way of looking at the world.
• Learning to speak, read and write Chinese will give you a lifetime of intellectual stimulation.
• Chinese is spoken by 1/4 of the world’s population, nearly 1.2 billion speakers of whom 885 million speak Mandarin Chinese.
• According to Chinese government news agency, over 40 million non-natives are learning Chinese as a foreign language. Chinese is the most taught foreign language after English in Japan.
• The process of learning Chinese has been proven to promote critical thinknig and cognitive processing skills.
• The Chinese language can actually help you in music! The tone-based speaking of Chinese language can help improve abilities to reconize variations in pitch, melody, and meaning.