Learning Chinese Pays Dividends: Of Characters and Cognition
“Yi, er, san . . .” A Chinese language student counts each stroke while writing the Chinese character for “big”, 大. This seems like a simple process, but new evidence suggests that studying Chinese and learning to write Chinese characters may train a whole array of cognitive abilities not utilised by the study of other languages and writing systems. Most students these days take Chinese because of its perceived value as a language of commerce and business, or “the language of
5 Reasons Why You Should Learn Chinese
1. Learning Chinese Is A Growing Trend If I were to tell you that everybody is learning Chinese these days, I would be lying. Of course, not everybody is but it is a fact that there are more people actively learning or considering taking up Chinese than any other language in the world today. More and more people have become aware of China's rise and importance on the world stage, particularly after the success of the 2009 Beijing Olympics, and, as a result, there is a growing